Untitled

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 392, 13 April 1871, Page 2

Certain chronic neuroses of the latter part of life present special aspects in which wine becomes an important consideration. "We refer ! especially to that exceedingly severe and la. tractable form of neuralgia (most commonly facial) which is rarely or never developed until after the age of forty; and which,; once developed, resists remedies with much pertinacity. We are not quite so helpless against this malady, it is true, as we formerly"were in particular it may be said that galvanism now appears to offer great chances of substantial relief. Still the misery which these neural, gias inflict, and the extent to which they shatter the system, is deplorable under the best eirenn*. I stances; aud we need every helpful adjunct ! we can get. The reflex irritation which the disease sets up is often fatal at once to appetite and to sleep ; and wine is the true remedy for this pare of the mischief. Iv elderly persons we have not to apprehend the earn? piischief to character which is so great, a danler when alcohol is prescribed with freedom for tho chronic ailments of those who have not yet passed the " grand climacteric;" aud we have personally seen cases in which, when tie stomach would retain scarcely anything elae, it was quieted, and the patient's strength was j admirably husbanded and fortified, by an I almost exclusively alcoholic diet—twelve to I eighteen ounces of sherry per diem continued I for several days. The older the wine, the more endowed with ethereal ingredients, the more effective is it for this purpose. Still we have seen patients greatly benefited by large doses of spirit which was practically little more than alcohol.—" On tho uses of Wines," in the Practitioner. . I

Within the last fifteen months the found* I tion stones hare been laid of three'neff I churcheß on the Marquis of Westminster1! ■ London estate, in all of -which the seats are H to be permanently free, and unappropriated, I so as to be equally accessible to poor and ■ rich. The churches are those of StUohn..the I Baptist,Grosvenor-row, Piinlico;'St.'Saviour, II Oxford.street, intended for the deaf 'and || dunab, and also for a general congregation if and All Sttiuts, GrosYenor-ro&d, _?iknlicoi_The first stone'of St, Saviour's, Oxford-street,™ recently laid by the Prince of Wales,--and , Lord Westminster himself laid the first stones J | of the other two. |