Doctors and Distillers The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Camper English, Joanna Carpenter

eAudio - 2022

“At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the cocktail book of the year, if not the decade.” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants“A fascinating book that makes a brilliant historical case for what I’ve been saying all along: alcohol is good for you...okay maybe it’s not technically good for you, but [English] shows that through most of human history, it’s sure beat the heck out of water.” —Alton Brown, creator of Good EatsBeer-based wound care, deworming with wine, whiskey for snakebites, and medicinal mixers to defeat malaria, scurvy, and plague: how today's tipples were the tonics of old.Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwine...d history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times, when beer and wine were used to provide... more