Wine in the different forms of anaemia and atonic gout.

  • Bégin, M.E.
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: Wine in the different forms of anaemia and atonic gout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    IN THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF ANJ3MIA AND ATONIC GOUT. Perhaps there does not exist, amongst the re- sources of hygiene and materia medica, a substance which is more frequently made use of than wine, nor one used with more indifference or less care, especially when we reflect that the component parts of different wines are so various, and their action must be productive of such variable results. It is a common practice to say to a convalescent: “ Drink good wine,” without thinking that its effect cannot he the same upon different temperaments, and that one must, above all in dealing with a sensitive organism, rigorously observe the recommendation of Hippocrates, who said : “ Wine is a substance wonderfully appropriate to man, in health as well as in sickness, if it be administered at the right time and in proper quantities, according to the individual constitution.” Liebig, the eminent chemist, also says : “ Wine is &ot surpassed by any natural or factitious production