and the Method of making Wines . din 
lias degenerated into a passion and real want. We daily 
see men, prudent in other respects, gradually acquire the 
habit of indulging immoderately in the use of this liquor ; 
and in their wine extinguish their moral faculties and their 
physical strength. 
Narratur et prisci Catonis, 
Saepe mero incaluisse virtus. 
We learn from history, that Wenceslas, king of Bo- 
hernia and of the Romans, having come to France to 
negotiate a treaty with Charles VI, repaired to Rheims 
in the month of May 1397? where he got intoxicated every 
day with the wine of the country, choosing rather to forego 
every thing than not indulge in this excess^. 
The virtue of wine differs according to its age. New 
wine is flatulent, indigestible, and purgative : mustum 
flatuosum et concoctu difficile. Unum in se bonum continet , 
quod alvum emolliat. Vinnm rarum infrigidat;— mustum 
crassi sued est , et fvigidi. 
The antients confounded these words— mustum et 
novum vinnm. Ovid says, Qiii nova musta bibant. Unde 
virge musta dicta est pro intacta et novella. 
Light wines only can be drunk before they have grown 
old. The reason we have mentioned in the preceding pa- 
ges. The Romans, as we have observed, followed this cus- 
tom, and drank their wines in succession : Vinum Gaura- 
mum et Mbanum, et queein Sabmis et in Tuscis nascun - 
tur, et Amienum quod circa dST 'eajpolim vicinis collibus 
g ignitur. 
New wines are not at all nourishing, especially those 
which are aqueous, and little saccharine : corpori alimen- 
tum subgerunt jpaucissimum^ says Galen. 
These wines readily produce intoxication ; and the 
reason of this is, the quantity of carbonic acid with which 
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