Mon Docteur, Le Vin

ISBN: 0300101333

Author: Derys, Gaston

Condition: New

This delightful little volume, first published in French in 1936, extols the many joys and benefits of wine. Wine drinkers will take pleasure in Gaston Deryss quaint appreciation of the grape, and art lovers will admire Raoul Dufys joyful watercolors. Reflecting the exuberance and elan of an earlier day, Derys takes us back to a time when the doctors favored prescription was an amiable glass of wine.In Deryss ode to wine, here translated into English, we discover that the medicinal and therapeutic uses of wine are many: it assists in fighting typhoid, infant sicknesses, and diabetes; it exerts a positive effect on ones character, beauty, and creativity: and it lends a fortifying power to athletes and soldiers. Supported by the comments of French doctors as well as Dufys beautifully reproduced paintings, Deryss argument to raise a glass of wine becomes pleasantly irrefutable.