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_ effects which vary in different wines. Light white wines are 
diuretic, and red tonic and astringent. Taken in moderate 
_ quantity at meals, wine increases the heat of the body, aids 
_ nutrition, stimulates the functions of the different organs, and 
promotes the play of the imagination. ASS 
_ In making medicinal wines, a rich sweet wine should be 
_used for the preservation of changeable drugs, red wines for 
_ tonic and astringent substances, and white wines for diuretic 
medicines. (Dorvault.) : 
Description.—the ovary of Vitis vinifera is 2-celled, 
with two ovules in each cell; it developes into a succulent, 
pedicellate berry of spherical or ovoid form, in which the cells 
are obliterated and some of the seeds generally abortive. As 
_ the fruit is not articulated with the rachis, or the rachis with 
the branch, it does not drop at maturity, but remains attached 
the plant on which, provided there is sufficient solar heat, 
the sun, (Hanbury.) 
Congeals to a brownish mass of the consistence of butter a6 
about —16° to —18°C, On exposure to the air the oil remains 
n that it consists of the glycerides of odewets : ¢ : 2 7 
gradually withers and dries: such fruits are called raisins of 
ré 
Sccasionally extracted,and which becomes thick at =~ LitC,end. 
ry for some time, but finally dries. (Br oonea feneass | : 
