Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-15
California wines fer the sicl
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California wines for the Sick
The Now England Medical Monthly for
December, magazine of high standing
with the medical profession, contains q
paper on infantile therapeutics from the
pen of DR.. John A. Larrabee. DR.. Love,
of g.. Louis, in discussing the views OF
DR.. Larrabee, refers particularly to the
treatment of diphtherta, and says that
there are two points to be considered
the constitutional and the local treat
ment. SIN the constitutional treat.
ment," he says, 1--WE must have gerini-
cides, and at the same time we must
have nutrition and stimu lation, but as a
part Of the constitutional treatment 1
consider that stimulation and nutrition
are among the most important. In
the matter of stimulation l have
found Tokay wine, or Hungarian Tokay
wine to be very valuable, but it has been
high priced-from So to IS bottle, SO
high as to be almost prohibitory and be-
yond the reach Of the majority of fami-
lies. There was presented to me within
the last year." continues DR.. Love, "a
bottle of Royal Tokay wine, California
production, bottled by the California
Vintage Company, of 81 Park Place, New
York City, at 81. so a bottle, which gives
exceptionally satisfactory results, and is
just az good as any Tokay ever used ;
therefore 1 think it sheer nonsense to
give families who cannot afford it pre-
scription for q three or a five dollar
wine." True enough, it is sheer nom
sense to give such prescrip-
ton to families whether they can afford
it or not. Why should foreign wine
be encouraged at all when we have q
home wine equally as pure and equally
as efficaciousf But the difference in favor
of the California wine should be much
greater than appears from the price
charged by the California Vintage Com
pany. At the rate our wines are sold
here, $3.50 for a bottle in New York is
really an unressonably high price, and
if the doctors will generally adopt our
wines for their prescriptions this price
will soon be largely reduced. Another
physician, who discusses this same SUBJ
ject-Dr. Owen, Of Evansville, Indiana
also gives the weight of his professional
testimony in favor OF the California Royal
Tokay. He says: at acts like magic,
and cannot say too much in its praise.
l have used it largely, and have never
been disappointed in it. What we want
in the sick room is pure stimulants, and
here you have it in Royal Tokay wine, q
reconstructive at the same time"
The importance Of engaging the medi-
cal fraternity throughout the United
States to adopt California wines and
brandies for the sick room has not had
the high place in our efforts to popular
ize the home production it should have
been entitled to. We doubt whether,
outside the leading drug stores in the
large Eastern cities, California wines
and brsndies are part of the stock OF well
appointed pharmacies. Yet the faculty
here, and to some extent at the East,
are we'll aware that our productions are
safer and surer of purity from sophistica'
ton Of any kind than the imported
liquids. There is wide and extensive
field to be worked, in thisregard, to the
advantage and the advancement of our
California grape industry.