Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop.

  • Bishop, S. O.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Champagne. age, wbile in reality it is no such thing, but tastes dry, simply because it is sour. I say sour, for the various degrees of dry, “very dry, and extra dry (Sec, tres-seo, “et brut) champagne are simply wines of “ different degrees of acidity. “ Sourness.—If any reader doubts this, let “ him for himself make the experiment of “ dipping a piece of blue litmus list paper “ into his fine dry wine : and if not already Champagne. aware of the fact, which in all probability, he is not, or he would not have a single drop of the liquid within his doors, I pro- “ mise that he will open his eyes wide with “ astonishment at the tint the paper will as- “ sume. Yinegar, pure strong vinegar, will not bestow on it a brighter red tint, and “ why ? Simply because the flavour which he “ ignorantly imagines is due to dryness, is on “ the contrary, due to the presence of acid, and the secret is this.—Dryness, as it is cinampagne, absurdly called, is the product of age. It
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