The art of making wine from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain ... With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine ... To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving ... / By William Graham.

  • Graham, William, of Ware.
Date:
1776
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of making wine from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain ... With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine ... To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving ... / By William Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A R O F MAKING W INES. ■titt. HAT the fertility and produce of Great- 1, p Britain equals any nation under Heaven, T b in every thing which conduces to the lub- <f.': J> fihence, health, and riches of its inhabh tants, will not at this time, after fo many demonftrations and proofs, be queftioned. England is {filed by foreigners the ftore-houfe and granary of Europe *, and nothing but want of fkill and induftry can at prefent hinder us from making thole whole- fome liquors called Made Wines, among many other things, at lead as good, if not fuperior to thole brought from abroad, to the great exhaufxing of our treaiure, and the manifed detriment of our inland trade parti¬ cularly ; nay, I mud beg leave to affirm, that the liquors produced of our natural growth, are not only as pleafant in tade, if rightly made and prepared, as any other, but far more agreeable to the conditu- tion of Englifhmen, by contributing to their natural health and vigour •, and, if not taken to excels, they lengthen life, and free old age from tnofe calamities that adulterated foreign wines and other liquors too often occafion ; which is evident from the innumer¬ able pains and dsfeales their iediments entail, by cor¬ rupting the good, or creatingbad humours in the body*