Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
(5) It was not as a common drink, but the exhortation or command extends only to its use as a medicine. All the use which can be legitimately made of this injunction - whatever conclusion may be drawn from other precepts - is, that it is proper to use a small quantity of wine for medicinal purposes.