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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    s m 5 WEXJLCUM. I IBM AW pam childhood, youth, maturity or old age, who does not; need fcS Vw to have the energy of these functions sustained and; even roused. Is not anemia, the general name for all organic debi¬ lity, at the bottom of sickness, and even ot what is called health, in our days ! The blood is pale, the circulation languid; the doctor and the hygienist agree as to the ne¬ cessity of helping them by exciting the languid appetite and reviving the inert stomach. The evil being thus discovered, the remedy is evident. Among the solid aliments, the most strengthening will be chosen. As to the liquid which must be called to their aid to digest them, it is already found. It is St. Raphael taken in the dose of dessert wines before and after meals. We shall now give the articles which have seemed to us best suited for putting together in a pamphlet which may be looked on as a notice 01 the wine of St. Raphael. ARTICLE I. The natural wine of St. Raphael compared with other more or less artificial wines. Wine, in itself, renders such important services in ali¬ mentary hygiene, that it is natural to give it a share in the dietary which is connected with the treatment of dis¬ eases, especially of those which are called atonic, and whose organic basis is the weakness of the humours or tissues. Among the ancients we see that wine was ordered for the sick, however far we go back in the annals of medecine. Nay, when some medicinal substance, aromatic or