Genre:

Extract, Reminiscences, Drollery

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Temperance, Epidemiology

    Relates an argument on the medical effects of drinking port-wine, between a port-wine drinker and a temperance advocate. The former gives as his clinching argument the fact that port-wine has 'kept the plague and the sweating-sickness out of England', nothing of the kind having occurred there since the Methuen trade treaty with Portugal (1703).