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carry along with them, obferved an inteftine motion in it 

 when they came to the equator ; and found it afterwards 

 turned into a kind of vinous liquor, capable of affording 

 an inflammable fpirit by diftillation. See Putrefaction 

 of Water. 



VINSOBRES, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Drome ; 4 miles S.E. of Nions. 



VINTAGE, the crop of wine, or what is got from the 

 vines each feaion. 



The word is alfo ufed for the time or feafon of gathering 

 or prefllng the grapes. 



In France, a decree or ordinance of the proper judge, and 

 a folemn publication of it, are required, before the vintage 

 can be begun. 



VINTAIN, or BiNTAiv, in Geography, a town of Africa, 

 and capital of the kingdom of Fouia, on a river of the fame 

 name, which runs into the Gambia. This town is much 

 frequented by Europeans for the purchafe of wax, ivory, 

 and Ikins. 



VINTIMIGLIA, a fea-port town of Genoa, defended 

 by a caille. It is the fee of a bifhop, under the archbifhop 

 of Milan; 13 miles N.E. of Nice. N. lat. 43° 48'. E. 



VINTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Ne- 

 rufii, according to Ptolemy, recognized by infcriptions in 

 honour of Gordian and Trajaii-Dccius, in which are read 

 CiviT. Vint. In the Notitia of the provinces of Gaul, Ci- 

 vitas Vintuntiiim is om- of thofc of the Maritime Alps. In 

 later times it was called Vincium, and this name is preferved 

 in that of Vence. 



VINUESA, in Geography, atown of Spain, in Old Caftile ; 

 13 miles N.W. of Soria. 



VINUM, a liquor, or drink, popularly called Wine ; 

 which fee. 



ViNUM, in Medicine, J^niim Meilicamentum, is particularly 

 applied to leveral medicated wines, /. e. medicinal prepara- 

 tions, of which wine is the bafis. Wine, as a folvent, is liable 

 to the objeftion of inequality of ftrcngth ; and on account of 

 its fpontaneous dtcompofition by expofure to the air, it is 

 more objeftionable, this change being more likely to occur 

 fooner when it is imbued with principles which tend to haltcn 

 the fermentative procefs. In order to obviate thcfe diiadvan- 

 tages, Parmcntier (Annalesde Chiniie, lii. 46.) propofes, 

 that inflead of preparing medicated wines in the uliial way, 

 the alcoholic tinctures well prepared (hould be added to wine 

 in given quantities; by which means, lie fays, the preparations 

 are lefs nauleous, and always of a d'.tcrminate flrength. By 

 the general term wine, the London College defignates (herry 

 wine. Thefe medicated wines fhould be kept in very wcll- 

 corked bottles, and in a cool fituation. Some of thefe are 

 denominated from the ingredients uf.d in thein ; fome from 

 the intentions with which they are prefcribed ; and fome 

 from their qualities, &c. Such are the 



ViNUM Abfintbites, or Wormwood Wine ; made of the great 

 or little abhnthir.m, by taking the apices, or tops, with the 

 flowers, putting them in a facculus, or bag, and fiifpending 

 it in the middle of a vetTel of wine ; winch, fermenting, ex- 

 trafts the talle, linell, and virtues, of the wormwood. See 

 Absintihtf.s. 



ViNUM Aloes, Wine of Aloes, is prepared, according to the 

 Lond. Ph., by rubbing eight ounces of extraft of fpiked 

 uloes to powder with white land previonfly freed from any 

 impurities, and alfo rubbing two ounces of canella bark into 

 powder, and on thefe, mixed together, pouring fix pints of 

 wine and two pints of proof-lpirit ; macerating for fourteen 

 days, frequently fhaking the veffel containing the mixture, 

 and afterwards llrainiiig. The Dub. Ph. dirctts four 



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ounces of focotorme aloes and one ounce of canella alba 

 to be feparately reduced to powder, and mixed together, 

 and then to pour over it three pints of Sp<auifh white wine, 

 mixed with a pound of proof-fpirit ; then to digeft for 

 fourteen days, with frequent agitation, and lailly to ftrain 

 the folution. 



ViNUM Aloes Socotorina, WineofSocolorine Aloes, of the Edin. 

 Ph., commonly called Sacred TinSure, is prepared by taking 

 one ounce of focotorine aloes in powder, leffer cardamom- 

 feeds bruifed, and ginger-root bruifed, of each a drachm, 

 and two pounds of Spanilh white wine ; digefling for feven 

 days, with frequent agitation, and then ftraining. This me- 

 dicated wine is an excellent warm purgative and ftomachic ; 

 and has been employed long and beneficially in cold 

 phlegmatic habits, paralyfis, gout, dyfpepfia, and chlorolis ; 

 the dofe is from f5j to f^ij as a ftomachic, and from t'sj 

 to fjij as a purgative. 



ViNUM Aloetieuni Alhalinum, a form of medicine in the 

 late London Difpenfatory, intended to ftand in the place of 

 Helmont's elixir proprietatis. It is prepared in this man- 

 ner : Take of bay fixed alkaline fait, eight ounces ; aloes, 

 myrrh, and fafFron, of each an ounce ; puritied fal ammoniac, 

 fix drachms; white wine, a quart; infufe them together 

 without heat for a week, or longer, and then filter the wine 

 through paper for ufe. 



VlNUiM Amaruni, Bitter Wine, is an infufion of certain bitter, 

 ftomachic herbs, as gentian-root, juniper-berries, tops of 

 centaury, orange and lemon-peel, in wine. Tliis wine may be 

 made by infnfing for a week, without heat, gentian-root, 

 and yellow rind of lemon-peel, of each one ounce, and two 

 draclims of long-pepper, in two pints of mountam-wine, and 

 ftraining out the wine for ufe. 



Tlie Ftnum Gentiaiiis Compofitum, vulgo l^inum Amariim, 

 or compound wine of gentian, commonly called bitter wine, 

 is obtained by flicing or bruifing lialf an ounce of gentian- 

 root, one ounce of cinchona bark, two draclims of orange-peel 

 dried, one drachm of canella alba, and pouring upon them 

 four ounces of proof-fpirit, and, after twenty-four hours, 

 adding two pounds and a half of Spanilh white wine ; then 

 macerating for feven days and ftraining. This wine, newly 

 prepared, is ftomachic and tonic, but by keeping becomes 

 acefcent. The dofe is from fjiv to f5vi, given two or 

 three times a day. For other preparations, fee Genj'ian- 

 Root. 



In complaints arifing from wcakncfs of the ftomach, or 

 indigeftion, a glafs of this wine may be taken an hour before 

 dinner and fnpper. 



ViNUM Anthelminlicum, Aiilhelmintit Wine, may be made 

 by infnfing, without heat, half an ounce of rhubarb, and 

 an ounce of worm-feed, bruifed, in two pints of red Porw 

 wine, for a few days, and ftraining off the wine. As the 

 llomachs of perfons afflittcd with worms are always debili- 

 tated, red wine alone will often prove lerviceable : it mult, 

 however, have Itill better effects when joined with bitter and 

 purgative ingredients, as in the above form. A glafs of this 

 wine may be taken twice or thrice a day. 



ViNUM Anlimoniale, Antimonial Wine, is made by digefting, 

 without heat, half an ounce of glafs of antimony, reduced 

 to a fine powder, in eight ounces of Lifbon wine, for three 

 or four days, occafionally (liaking the bottle, and afterwards 

 filtering the wine through paper. The dofe of this wine 

 varies according to the intention. As an alter.itive and dia- 

 phoretic, it may be taken from ten to fifty or fixty drops. 

 In a larger dofe it generally proves cathactic, or excites 

 vomilin-.';. 



The Lirjiior Antimnnii T.ntariaali, or foln'ion of tartarized 

 autimony of ^iie Lund. Ph., is obtained by diflolviiig a Icruple 



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