Excerpt from Report on the Cheap Wines: From France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Greece, Hungary, and Australia: Their Use in Diet and Medicine This is meant for a second edition of a "Report on Cheap Wines" which originally appeared as a series of articles in the Medical Times and Gazette in 1863 and 1864, and was published in a collected form in 1865. At that time rivers of strange wines were coming in from all parts of the world, and both the medical profession and the public wanted to know what they were good for. My little book seemed to give satisfactory information on that point; anyhow, it sold furiously and was soon out of print. Scarce a day has passed since in which it has not been asked for at Mr. Renshaw's, and it has brought me the flattering approval of men of letters, physicians, diplomatists, and nologues. Daily occupations of an absorbing kind and wretched health have prevented me hitherto from revising the book, but I have never lost sight of the subject, and now at last have plucked up heart to make a second edition. In this not much, of the original work remains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."