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instead of being a blessing to society, is converted 

 into a curse, owing to its fabrications and adultera- 

 tions. What must be the results to a patient, when 

 instead of pure and genuine wine, he is given a 

 composition of bad brandy, cider, sloe-juice, log-wood, 

 Brazil-wood, sal-tartar, gum-dragon, berry-dye, ex- 

 tract of almond, Cape, cherry -laurel water, gum ben- 

 zoin, sugar of lead, nay, even arsenic ? 



" For Port wine fabrications and adulterations, the 

 sailors' black strap or benecarlo, Figuera, the red Cape, 

 are used ; and to give it richness, a little Mountain : 

 then sal-tartar to make it crust ; for fulness of flavour, 

 gum-dragon ; for colouring, berry-dye or log-wood ; 

 cider to make up quantity, and brandy-cow to keep 

 it. Brandy or rum-cow is obtained by putting a 

 certain quantity of water in fresh emptied butts, 

 which is allowed to stand a certain time, long enough 

 to extract the whole of the spirit from the staves 

 what sailors call to bull the cask. The adulterators 

 of sherry, either pale or brown, generally use Cape 

 wine, British raisin wine, cider, brandy-cow, extract 

 of almond cake, cherry-laurel water, gum-benzoin, 

 high-coloured British brandy, sugar of lead, or 

 arsenic. To discharge the colour, skimmed milk and 

 lambs' blood, in more or less quantity, according to 

 the colour desired. Madeira undergoes nearly the 

 same process, excepting that, cheap Vidonia, and 

 a twentieth part of common dry grots, are used in its 

 composition. Vidonias are generally fabricated from 

 cider, or British wine, and neutral flavoured rum, 

 subjected to the other additions, as Sherry and 

 Madeira. Bucellas is generally composed of Cape 



