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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    m St. Raphael has thus acquired the merited reputation of being stomachic and digestive. ARTICLE II. Medical qualities and recommandations of St. Raphael. If we see medical science at last investigating the sub¬ ject of the wines best fitted for man’s use in the three con¬ ditions of life : health, disease, and convalescence, it is 1%.: __ undoubtedly St. Raphael that we have to thank for it. The alimentary hygiene of all ages and the animal che- mistry of our own days are unanimous in acknowledging the utility of wine in the regimen of invalids, as well as in the alimentation of the healthy. But it is to be understood that only good wine is meant, and not all wines without exception, for in the great number there are some that would be positively unwholesome. There are two different ways in which medical science can arrive at a solution of the important question thus put to it, but the results are identical. , * s-f- M Wf. n h, • . «-i I tW-V * C w'f** Wtllu. AApVC/. <f^ A. TH HuJ, HT The doctor is above all an observer of what takes place in the organism placed under his care. It is only by obser¬ ving the results that he thinks he can judge well. He judges medicaments, as well as aliments according to the effects produced by theijyjngestion. If they do good he calls them good, and nothing but this evidence can con¬ vince him. Not that the physician is indifferent to the notions fur¬ nished him by the other sciences, which study the rela¬ tions existing between alimentary substances and the