Listening to The Commodore.
Listening to The Commodore. Lots of talk of Jesuit’s Bark as a medicine, apparently good for fever and Malaria. Wikidpedia article on Jesuit’s Bark leads me to the article on Cinchona, then to Quinine, where I hit this bit:
According to tradition, the bitter taste of anti-malarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the iconic gin and tonic cocktail.
Whattayaknow.
Richard G probably knows this, because British Navy, colonialism, and booze.
ReplyDeleteYup. See also India Pale Ale.
ReplyDeleteI knew it because Gin and Tonic is my jam :-)
ReplyDeleteOccasionally European colonialism had positive results...most benefiting my belly.
I learned about it in a Medical Anthropology class. (social) Science!
ReplyDeletegin, also, was considered medicine. Sometimes, in some places...
ReplyDeleteI am well acquainted with gin's power as an anesthesia and later, as an emetic.
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