A History of Wine as Therapy - Lucia, Salvatore P.

Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to spine extremes; blue cloth covers, grey block on spine with gilt titles and design; no fading; lightly age tanning; very minimal wear; appears unread; Salvatore P. Lucia's 1963 book, A History of Wine as Therapy, purports that wine is perhaps the oldest of all medicines, dating back over 40 centuries of written record. "Dr. Lucia's excellent review of the history of medicine with which wine is intimately mixed. The oldest of medicines, Egyptian medicine, is believed to have used wine therapeutically long before the oldest known inscription depicting winemaking which is dated c. 4000 BC. The oldest physically preserved record of wine in medicine is that inscribed in Sumerian cuneiform excavated from the ruins of Nippur, south of the supposed site of Babylon. Vedic medicine in ancient India dates from 2500 BC. Indian medicine developed independently of that in Egypt and Sumer and antedated that of Greece. The use of fermented beverages by the Hindus represents a unique chapter in the history of wine as a therapeutic agent. And so on through recorded history." - JAMA
Very Good/No Jacket
Hardcover
J.B. Lippincott
1963
Montreal, QC