Part 1: Popular and professional wine therapies: 1. People's stories: wine in popular medicine -- 2. An early-nineteenth century German-French model of wine therapy -- Part 2. A remarkable nineteenth-century medicine: 3. Alcohol therapy -- 4. French and British wine therapies -- Part 3. Iatrogenic tales: 5. The debate over the pathogenic nature of plastered wine -- 6. Debates over wine alcohol, Prussian Blue and sulphur dioxide -- Part 4. The renaissance of wine therapy in twentieth century medicine: 7. Establishing the scientific basis of an ancient remedy -- 8. New support from animal models and ionic therapy -- 9. The civilisation of wine and the organisation of doctors -- Part 5. Medicine on the moving fringe: 10. Wine defences against bacteria, heart disease and cancer -- 11. Wine therapy: the future of another illusion?