Dr. Richard Bright and Lake Balaton.

(Isca Silurum), the base of the Second Augustan Legion (legio II Augusta), was discovered an amphora, which had contained Aminean wine, a high quality Italian white wine that kept well.27 Celsus prescribes two uses for this wine. Firstly, as a cure for diarrhoea one should eat half a pound of bread soaked in neat Aminean wine, then something roasted (particularly poultry), then drink the Aminean wine mixed with rain-water. Alternatively, boil half a pound of wheat in dry Aminean wine, eat the wheat on an empty stomach, then drink the wine; Celsus recommends this as a very good remedy.28 The second major use was to cure an ailment, the symptoms of which were as follows:29 Another, although not very different ailment, is gravedo. This blocks up the nostrils, makes the voice hoarse, and causes a dry cough. In it the saliva is salty, there is a ringing in the ears, the veins in the head throb, and the urine is turbid ... These affects tend to be of short duration, but if neglected, may last a long time. None is fatal, except that which causes ulcers in the lung. His advice is to take sensible precautions, although the normal diet can be kept, and the ailment will generally clear up in two to three days. However, if it has not cleared by the fourth day, 'the patient must take dry Aminean wine, then water for two days' after which he will be well enough to return to his normal diet. Gravedo is the common cold. Although medical and pharmaceutical knowledge has progressed greatly since the time of Celsus, there is still no cure for the common cold, but there must be many today, who would agree with the men of legio II Augusta, that doses of Aminean wine (or its modern equivalent) are the next best thing. Horehound was used until recently as a remedy for coughs. is chiefly remembered for his medical researches-principally his recognition of the disease now called after him, Bright's disease. But in addition to his medical achievements, he was a man of wide scientific interests, an accomplished linguist and very interested in foreign travel. When the approaching end of Napoleonic wars made continental travel again possible, Bright left his studies to go abroad once more. He journeyed through Holland, Belgium and Germany, arriving at Vienna in the winter of 1814-15. Here he attended the famous …