The account compresses tax and legal history. Do not present medicine stamp duty as a demonstrated replacement for distilled-spirits tax without case/statute evidence. The 1906 law did not by itself settle every straight/blended definition; the name Wylie and agency description require verification.
Don Cazentre, Spirits & Cocktails of Upstate New York: A History (2017). Supplied ebook PDF positions, not print-page numbers.
The Duffy narrative follows advertising, medicinal classification disputes, enforcement and the market effects of food-and-drug reform.
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Duffy’s medicinal whiskey and regulation
September 29 audit: all 227 main-text pages read, every page visually surveyed and 20 details enlarged. Source remains Partial Source for cropped PDF186 menu and partly illegible embedded fine print. This entry's paraphrase and locator were rechecked; historical corroboration, recipe testing, native-byte and browser verification are separate.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
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Evidence
The Duffy narrative follows advertising, medicinal classification disputes, enforcement and the market effects of food-and-drug reform.
Location and context
No access, PDF 153–156; Duffy’s medicinal whiskey and regulation. Supplied ebook PDF positions, not print pagination. Full analysis 
Annotation
The account compresses tax and legal history. Do not present medicine stamp duty as a demonstrated replacement for distilled-spirits tax without case/statute evidence. The 1906 law did not by itself settle every straight/blended definition; the name Wylie and agency description require verification.
Verification checklist
Verified means source fidelity only. Publication claims and practical tests remain separate.