BOOK XXIII. XXIV. 49-xxvi. 52 



the same thing happens in sleep, or if the eyes be 

 bloodshot or rheum should form in the corners ; 

 certainly not if the tongue be furred " and heavy, and 

 speech is blurred from time to time ; nor in dysuria, 

 nor in sudden frights, nor to those who are in con- 

 vulsions, or again comatose, nor if the seed be 

 emitted in sleep. 



XXV. In cardiac disease the one hope of reUef lies 

 undoubtedly in wine. Some however think that it 

 should be given only during an attack, others only 

 when there is a remission ; the object of the former 

 is to control the sweating, the latter think that there 

 is increased safety when the disease is on the decUne, 

 most authorities, I notice, holding this view. It 

 ought at any rate to be given only with food, not after 

 sleep nor after another kind of drink — that is, there 

 must at any rate be thirst — only in the last resort and 

 to a man rather than a woman, to an old man rather 

 than to a young one, to a young man rather than to a 

 boy, in winter rather than in summer, to those used 

 to wine rather than to teetotalers. The dose to be 

 taken depends upon the potency of the wine and also 

 on the amount of water added. The general opinion 

 is that a satisfactory mixture is one cyathus of wine to 

 two of water. If the stomach be disordered, should 

 the food not pass down, the wine must be given once 

 more. 



XXVI. The artificial kinds of wines, the preparation Artifidai 

 of which I have mentioned,* I think to be no longer "'"^*' 

 made and their use supei-fluous, since I give instructions 

 about the use of the ingredients themselves of which 



they are composed. In other respects the pretence 



* See XIV. § 98 ff. 



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