1 84 Method of making a WINE, 



teftine motion which accompanies the fermentation is fufficient 

 to produce the degree of agitation which feems neceflary to 

 keep the parts of the fluid in mutual contact, or to fit them for 

 mutual action. Milk, on the contrary, is no fooner foured 

 than a feparation of its parts takes place ; the cream rifes to 

 the top, while the cheefe either falls to the bottom, or is fufpend- 

 ed in the whey. When thefe parts are brought, however, into 

 clofe contact with one another, by agitation, and this repeated 

 at proper intervals, a vinous liquor is produced j of the medi- 

 cal virtues of which I mail now treat. 



FROM the time I had heard of Koumtfs, I had conceived an 

 opinion of its importance in the cure of certain difeafes. I 

 judged, that a preparation of milk, which could not be curdled 

 by the juices of the flomach, while, at the fame time, it pof- 

 fefTed all its mitritive qualities, with the fuperaddition of a fer- 

 mented fpirit, might be of effential fervice in all thofe diforders 

 where the body is defective either in nourifhment or flrength. 



THE cafe of the above mentioned nobleman, who commu- 

 nicated to me the firft procefs, gave me an opportunity of 

 trying, how far my conjectures were well founded. He was in 

 that ftate which feemed to me ftrongly to indicate the ufe of 

 fuch a medicine as Koumifs. I accordingly advifed him to it. 



AT twenty-fix years of age, he laboured under a complica- 

 tion of chronic complaints. A confirmed lues venerea, injudi- 

 cioufly treated, with three fucceflive falivations by mercury, 

 added to bad management of himfelf under thefe, had given 

 rife to his difeafe. His body was much emaciated ; his face 

 was of a livid yellow colour ; his eyes were funk, and round 

 his eye-lids there was a dark made ; he felt a fevere pain in his 

 breaft, and that was accompanied with a confiderable cough 

 and mucous expectoration ; his appetite and digeftion were 

 greatly impaired ; he had frequent tremblings and faintings \ 

 he began to feel the fymptoms of hectic fever. In a word, his 

 whole appearance was confumptive, and he was fo weak that 



he 



