120 VETERINARY MATERIA MEDICA. 



prepared artificially by adding to high wine (alcohol) 

 acetic or nitric ether, caramel, and logwood or cate- 

 chu for astringency. Dose same as of whiskey. 



Vinum Album, white wine. Contains ten to four- 

 teen per cent, by weight of alcohol. Prepared by 

 fermenting the unmodified grape juice (freed from 

 skins, seeds, and stems). 



Vinum Album Fortius, stronger white wine. 

 Contains twenty to twenty-five per cent, by weight 

 of alcohol. (Vinum album 7, alcohol 1). 



Vinum Rubrum, red wine. Contains from ten to 

 fourteen per cent, by weight of alcohol. It is made 

 by fermenting the juice of colored grapes with their 

 skins. 



Unofficial Alcoholic Preparations. — Proof 

 Spirit. Contains forty-nine per cent, by weight of 

 absolute alcohol, with a peculiar oil and other foreign 

 matters; specific gravity, 0.920. 



Rectified Spirit. Contains eighty-five per cent, by 

 weight of absolute alcohol and no fusel oil; specific 

 gravity, 0.835. 



Rum (Jamica and St. Croix). From the distillation 

 of fermented molasses. 



Gin. Distilled from rye or barle}', and flavored 

 with juniper berries and hops. Cheaper grades are 

 sometimes flavored with oil of turpentine. 



Vinum Portense, port wine. Contains from thirty 

 to forty per cent, of alcohol. 



Vinum Xericum, sherry, contains from twenty to 

 thirty-five per cent, of alcohol. 



Beer contains alcohol two to three per cent. ; Ale 



