Temperance and total abstinence, or the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors in health and disease / By Spencer Thomson.

  • Spencer Thomson
Date:
1850
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Credit: Temperance and total abstinence, or the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors in health and disease / By Spencer Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Quantity of Alcohol. Specific gravity 8°25. Average in 100 parts. Port : ‘ : . 22°96 Sherry s |] LO Champagne. : ed aa Frontignac . . ; 12:79 Claret .. ‘ : si Lb LO Marsala. : : 25°9 Madeira ' : » toe Cape . : : : 20°51 Currant . . ‘ . 20°55 Gooseberry ; . Holl Sa CAEP 0.5 , ; um OSe Perry ' : 7°26 Mead . ‘ : » 17°32 As may be seen from the foregoing Table, the proportion of spirit in some of these wines is very considerable ; but much of this is due to that depraved taste, which has rendered it necessary for foreigners to add spirit to the genuine wine, to render it marketable in Britain; spirit, too, which for the most part, must remain in the wine in an uncombined condition. One leading characteristic which distinguishes the grape from other subacid fruits, and materially modifies its action in a dietetic point of view, is the presence of its peculiar acid, the tartaric, which, in combination with potash and other matters, is deposited on the sides of the wine casks during the slow fermentation, being, in fact, impure cream of tartar. It may be said, that in the present time, fermented wines only are used by man generally; there can be no doubt, how- ever, that in former times, a species of unfermented wine was
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