"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 Eats Beer-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
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.
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