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thes^, ,qouutnes iire well known to be of an acid quality; 

 and Hofinian asserts, and. that, too from experiments, that 

 thej' abound in the tartarous acid; having found them to 

 contain a double relative quantity of that in other wines; 

 a^id.t.o. this Ave ,niay, add no small proportion, of carbonic 

 aeidi,;, Liunasus, in his dissertation '' De Genesi Calculi," 

 inserted in the second volume of the " x\menitates Acade^ 

 V,,)inic??^" .seems more particularly to point out acids, and 

 aqescent drinks, as the chief causes of calculus affections. 

 He says,, " acida; ferinentescentia omnia calculum promo- 

 '•' vent j hijicj'rina acida genesi calculi magis favent, quam 

 lV,d»lci^.i;Q.W acjda vina copiose ingurgitant, podagras et 

 " ;c.alculo plus exponuntuji;,, qu^m illi, qu} terras calidiores 

 1' inhabitant, et dulci9,.,v,ina,. hauriun;t.j,^ Nee mirum, cum 

 " YJini Rhenani libros quatuor destillatione dant spiritus 

 ".acidi drachmas quinque; et vini Tocariensis prsebet spi- 

 " ritus acidi tautum semidrachmam, teste Hoffmanno. Sa- 

 " nissimus quisque a potu acido saepe stranguriam incur- 

 " rit, eo quod ab acidis ingestis particulse terrestres pree- 

 '/.cipitantur." And again; " qu in podagra igitur et calcu- 

 " lus ab acido generentur, nullum est dubium^ id etiam 

 " ab eorum comjnuni cura; ad quam pcrgimus, luculen- 

 " tius; patebit/' Beverovie, De Calculo, 80, also observes, 

 "vftafjoullo vino tantuni tartari apud nos accrescit, quam 

 '> Rhenano. De me ipso, qupd , etiam ex plurimis audi- 

 '.' visse memini, possum testari, nunquam Rhenanum assum- 

 " sisse paulo largius, quin copiose arenulas excernerem." 

 The reverse of all this is observed to take place, Avhere 

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