Review
Is wine good for your heart? A critical review
N GallDepartment of
Cardiology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5
9RS, UK
Correspondence to: Dr Gall nick.gall@ckl.ac.uk
Submitted 11 May 2000;
Accepted 17 October 2000
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Introduction |
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Vita vinum est 
Wine is life
Petronius, Satyricon
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History |
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For millennia, physicians used wine for its medicinal qualities.1 2 Receipts for wine based medicines dating back 4000 years have been discovered in Egypt and Sumeria. The Greeks used wine extensively. Hippocrates, one of their most respected physicians, in the fifth century BC, used wine for many ailments, diarrhoea, difficult childbirth, and lethargy included. He also used it as a disinfectant, an aid to digestion, a diuretic, and as a carrier for other drugs. He advised white wine for dropsy and red wine for hunger and nourishment. The Romans also recognised wine's qualities. Galen, living around 150 AD, was one of Rome's most famous physicians and the Emperor's wine taster. He used wine as a gladiatorial disinfectant and advised:
"dark and sweet wines produce much blood, while
white and light ones produce but little blood, so that the first ones
are proper
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