Booze and medicine have been tangled up since day one. From ancient brews that fed the sick to monks whipping up secret liqueurs in stone-walled apothecaries, the line between healing and getting buzzed has always been blurry.

✦ Ancient beer, alchemy, and old-school snake oil

✦ How gin & tonics and gimlets started as “medicine”

✦ Science, spirits, and a whole lot of sketchy cures

Camper English breaks it all down with the right mix of history, weird facts, and cocktail lore.

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