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Therapeutic
Values
of
Wines
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wine is
a
marvelous product for
man
either
in health or illness,
if
he makes
judicious
use
of
it, according to
his constitution.
High medical authorities
and
scientists through
out the
world
4acknowledge
that wine spirits
and
malt liquors
used
as a
beverage are very
beneficial
to
health
when taken
in
moderation and are abso
lutely
necessary
in
many cases
of
fever, nervous
ex
haustion,
debility
and convalescence.
Old
people are
greatly
benefited by
daily drink
ing of
good wines in moderate quantity.
A
poet
once said
“that
the man who
drinks
Wine must
necessarily
have more exalted thoughts than he who
drinks water.”
CENTURIES
of
experience have confirmed
that
Wine invigorates
the mind and body, and gives
life
an
additional
charm,
but
temperance and
mod~
eration are virtues essential
to
our
happiness.
The
good effect
of wines
as a
food
is
due to
their
stimulating
operation on the nervous system and
muscular lining of
the stomach, by
which
the same
is
excited to
greater action
and produces
a
healthy
ñow
of
the
gastric juices.
Wine
being the pure
juice
of the grape
properly
fermented and aged
is without
question
a
healthful
beverage to take
with
meals, and
if
those who
drink
ice
water would
use wine instead, they
would
find
their digestion better
and
their
general
health
im
moved.