The wine of Saint Raphael / by Xavier Blanchin.

  • Blanchin, Xavier.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The wine of Saint Raphael / by Xavier Blanchin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which of its elements may act efficaciously on the organi¬ sation. When subjected to this test, in comparison with other wines, St. Raphael was found to contain a larger proportion of an, immediate ^principle called Tannin, which is known to possess the tonic qualities most in demand in our days, for the digestion, and for the circulation of tl 1C b'luuu, 111 the sick and Convalescent. Since this discovery, several attempts have been made, as was to be expected, to compose tannic wines by simply adding tannin to those that were deficient in it. Wines more tannic than St. Raphael were thus made. Rut what art elaborates is never worth the natural production, and St. Raphael being natural is thereby superior, and prefe¬ rable to these various preparations. Its utility for the sick, having been remarked, it was na¬ tural to inquire whether it might not be good also for those who were well, indeed, but yet whose nutritive func¬ tions were not in perfect order. It is long since the trial was made, and now the consumption of St. Raphael in family life is still greater than in the* clinic of the hos¬ pitals. Such are the facts which will be found explained, and often justified by quotations from competent men, in this pamphlet. It will draw attention, too, to the fortunate coincidence of St. Raphael having become known and appreciated at a y time when almost all constitutions are defective, especially with regard to vital force and to the digestive functions. Indeed whose health is not in default now-a-days with regard to these organic functions and energies ? Our whole system being, without any doubt, dependent on nu- trition and assimilation, where is the man or woman, in 22501734905