Use the textual medical-use evidence together with the Green River and Duffy visual-advertising citations.
Historical accounts and advertisements that present whiskey as preventive, restorative, or curative should be written as dated claims by identifiable actors and products, not as evidence that whiskey treated the stated condition.
Verified as a research and writing rule against the complete textual and visual review. Individual historical claims still require their own primary-source checking.
This does not erase historically documented medical use. It governs how those uses are represented and prevents modern medical inference.
The source explicitly reports period medical practice and marketing while distinguishing those claims from demonstrated efficacy; the two advertisements make the attribution problem visible.
Created after complete textual and visual review of Doctors and Distillers on 2026-08-26.