Grape Cure

On the death of the general, which had taken place the year before, the inconsolable widow had gone abroad with her daughter, partly in order to try the grape-cure which she proposed to carry out at ❋ Unknown (2003)

We do not fancy the Bonapartist grape-cure, nor believe in it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Children do not, as a rule, bear the grape-cure well. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

After losses of blood, and in allied states of exhaustion, the restorative powers of the grape-cure are often [240] strikingly exhibited. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

'My husband insists upon trying the baths of Bormio, and then we are to go over a pass for him to try the grape-cure at ❋ George Meredith (1868)

'My husband insists upon trying the baths of Bormio, and then we are to go over a pass for him to try the grape-cure at Meran. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

I have been through what is called the grape-cure, much more charming, certainly, than the water-cure. ❋ Ossoli, Margaret F (1851)

The effects of a milk and vegetable diet, of gluten bread in diabetes, of cod-liver oil in phthisis, even of such audacious innovations as the water-cure and the grape-cure, are only hints of what will be accomplished when we have learned to discover what organic elements are deficient or in excess in a case of chronic disease, and the best way of correcting the abnormal condition, just as an agriculturist ascertains the wants of his crops and modifies the composition of his soil. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

He has drunk himself gouty on Port wine, and here he is for the grape-cure. " ❋ George Meredith (1868)