Doctors and distillers the remarkable medicinal history of beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails

Title Doctors and distillers the remarkable medicinal history of beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails
Names English, Camper.
Book Number DB109831
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Download Link Downloadable talking book.
Annotation "Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined 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 nutrition and hydration, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums, and the drinks we're familiar with today began to take form. In turn, scientists studied fermentation and formed the germ theory of disease, and developed an understanding of elemental gases and anesthetics. Modern cocktails like the Old-Fashioned, Gimlet, and Gin and Tonic were born as delicious remedies for diseases and discomforts. In |Doctors and Distillers|, cocktails and spirits expert Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were, until surprisingly recently, one and the same." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Carpenter, Joanna.
Local Subject Pharmacology & therapeutics - 615
Medicine & Health - MED
COOKING & HOMEMAKING - CKH
History - World - HWO
Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Short Book - SH
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
LC Subject Alcoholic beverages - Therapeutic use - History
Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Health aspects - History
Medicine - History
Therapeutics - History
Nonfiction
Talking books
Call Number 615.7828 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2022 9780593557907 2022
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