Grasse, Steven. Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History. Illustrated by Reverend Michael Alan. Abrams Image, 2016.
Distillation imagery, humoral framing, snake-oil narrative and historical remedy lists connect spirits with medicine.
Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016), supplied PDF screens 281–294.
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Grasse, Colonial Spirits, PDF 281–294.
Distillation and medicinal belief
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Distillation imagery, humoral framing, snake-oil narrative and historical remedy lists connect spirits with medicine.
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Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016), supplied PDF screens 281–294: Distillation and medicinal belief. These locators refer to the supplied screenshot PDF, not printed pagination. Research paraphrase; no verbatim quotation is being asserted.
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Not reliable earliest-distillation chronology, etymology or treatment guidance; apparatus art is not engineering evidence.
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