Separates the category's medicinal-compound lineage from its later identity as aged, grain-character spirit.
This is a broad British and Irish prehistory used to frame American whiskey; dates, formulations, and pharmacopoeia entries remain attributed to English's synthesis.
The source traces whiskey's name to Gaelic usquebaugh, or water of life, and describes early Irish and Scottish grain spirits as medicinal products often compounded with herbs, roots, spices, fruit, and other botanicals.
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