A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors : with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood.

  • Morewood, Samuel.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customes of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors : with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    illustrate the subject, or which afford to the man of business a clear view of the various branches of com- merce connected with the wine and spirit trades. For the same reason, as the work has not been divided into chapters, a copious, introductory Table of Contents is given, by which means the reader is at once guided to the part wanted, while the Index affords a more minute reference to details. The processes of Brewing and Distilling, according to the most approved modern methods, are, it is pre- sumed, so amply and intelligibly detailed, that by a careful observance of the instructions given, any man may become his own brewer or distiller, and may also with confidence calculate on the probabilities of the successful, or unsuccessful, result of his speculations. To these important matters are added epitomes of the laws, by which those trades have been and are still governed, with the estimated advantages and disadvan- tages of their application. Descriptions of the several instruments used by Brewers, Distillers, Merchants, and Officers of the Revenue, are given, with a statement of the principles on which they are constructed, rendering their applica- tion easy and familiar to every capacity. The nature and properties of alcohol are detailed, and the various substances from which it may be obtained are minutely described, with the relative value of the several vegetables or other materials that yield it. In the article on Opium and other vegetable inebriants, great care has been taken to bring under review their