Note 63 — WINE.

“More or less Alcohol is necessary to support the usual vigour of the greater number of people even in Health—nothing therefore can be more injudicious than wholly to deprive them of this support when they are weakened by disease—Dyspeptics who have been accustomed to its use, cannot be deprived of it—a very moderate use of Wine can hardly be said to be injurious: we see those who use it in this way, live as long, and enjoy as good health, as those who wholly abstain from it.”—Dr. Philip, on Indigestion, 8vo. 1821, pp. 139 and 144.