Historical health claims must preserve actor, text, purpose, and period rather than becoming modern therapeutic assertions.
These are historically attributed uses, not evidence that the treatments were safe or effective.
Gunn's Domestic Medicine and Civil War practice are presented as using whiskey as stimulant, solvent, external preparation, compound-remedy base, comfort measure, and specimen preservative.
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Chapter 6 — Whiskey in America
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