The Eclectic and general dispensatory; comprehending a system of pharmacy, materia medica, the formulae of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin ... for the most common empirical medicines

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...five-seeded superior. Speciet 1. V. trim/era. Common Vine. Med. Bot. 2d. edit. 144. t. 57. Duhamel Jlrb. ii. t. 1--6. Officinal. Uvjs Passe, Lond. ViTts vi yiriiA rRPCTCs, Edin. Uvas Pass. SoLe Jiccatk, lhib. Raisins, Sun Raisins. Syn. Raisin sees (F.), Rosine (C), Uva pusa (/.), Passa («.)» z»bib (») Kishraisb, (//.) The Vine is a native of Armenia, Georgia, and most of the temperate regions of uie earth; and is cultivated with care wheretver its fruit can be brought to perfection. Its culture is supposed to have been introduced from the East, where it was cultinted, and wine made from the fruit, in the earliest ages; and afterwards to have extended from Italy to Burgundy in the time of the Antonines. It was introduced into Madeira, from the island of Cyprus, in the fifteenth century. In Great Britain the vine was cultivated before the year 731, when Bede finished his history j but although it was at one period brought to considerable perfection,-)-yet, from the greater value of the ground for the cultivation of com, and the wines produced in this country having never equalled those of the continent, vineyards are now scarcely known in Britain. The vine, therefore, is cultivated here for the dessert only, no raisins are made, and scarcely any wine. There are many varieties of the vine; that which it called the Alexandrian Fron'.iniac yields the most delicious grapes for mating, and the Syrian the largest bunch Raisins are made from the varieties nawd the black raisin grape, and the white "arin grape. They are cured in two meMs; either by cutting the stalk of the Mnches half through, when the grapes are Marly ripe, and leaving them suspended on the vine till their watery part is evaponted, and the St n dries and candies them; or by ...