Spiritus vini

Spiritus viniFoster, F.D. (1891-1893). An illustrated medical dictionary. Being a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French, and German languages. New York: D. Appleton and Company. est aqua ardens, e destillatione vini producta, quae olim in medicamentum, hodie communiter in oblectamentum bibi solet. Spiritus vini, huic usui ideonei, saepe bis vel ter destillantur ad impuritates deiiciendas; saepe etiam in tunnis vel cupis maturantur. Spiritus vini ab auctoribus antiquissimis "aqua ardens" appellatur, quod nomen recentius ad spiritus non e vino tantum, sed ex aliis liquidis fermentatis deductos applicatur.

Spiritus vini Cognacensis, Armeniacensis, Xerae inter celebriores sunt.

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