The dose was given on the label as:
Three small sherry-glassfuls per day, with or without water, 5 minutes before, or immediately after meals, and at night before bedtime.
Analysis of the wine showed it to contain, in 100 parts by measure
| Alcohol | 8·75 | parts. |
| Glycerine | 3·55 | ” |
| Total solids | 2·92 | ” |
| Fixed acid, reckoned as tartaric | 0·43 | part. |
| Volatile acid, reckoned as acetic | 0·21 | ” |
| Reducing sugar | 0·28 | ” |
| Cane sugar | doubtful trace. | |
| Ash | 0·30 | part. |
| Uranium, equivalent to crystalline uranium nitrate | 0·02 | ” |
No digestive power whatever on egg-albumen could be detected, indicating the absence of unchanged pepsin. The amount of uranium found corresponds to one-twelfth of a grain of the nitrate in 1 fluid ounce, or half a grain in the daily dose, a sherry glass usually holding about 2 ounces.
The cost of the preparation depends, of course, on the cost of the original wine, and is scarcely affected by the added ingredients.
DILL’S DIABETIC MIXTURE.
This mixture is sold by a firm in Manchester at the price of 8s. 3d. for three bottles (not supplied singly), holding 2 fluid ounces each.
It was advertised in the following terms:
Diabetes.