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MIXED DRINKS.
Hippocrates,the Father of Medicine, as the originator
of those valuable and suggestive formulas that have
survived and been handed down to us amid the ravages
of time.
During the pre-Hippocratic period these prepara
tions were believed to possess marvelous properties and
with the" ofiering of mystical incantations, to exert
magical powers in the cure of various diseases. They
were swallowed with avidity and mysterous invocations
to the gods by the afflicted of body and spirit, in the
perfect confidence that while they gratified the sense of
taste,they would strengthen the stomach and dissipate
all the ills to which flesh or mind was heir. But Hip
pocrates ventured to difi'er from the priest-physicians;
though born and bred among that superstitious craft
and inheriting all the silly traditions and prejudices of
that unenlightened epoch, he boldly cast superstition
aside and based his practice upon the principles of
inductive philosophy and the inherent virtues of the
wines and remedies themselves.
Cordials, Liqueurs, Etc.
Then came the Moorish alchemists with their per
fected stills, producing sweet cordials that became
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