Drink containing alcohols, typically ethanol

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Three people drinking punch as a cure for (right to left) gout, colic, and phthisis. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A drunken scene in a gin shop with children being given alcohol. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.

A Scottish doctor informing a northen farmer of the perils of consulting a southern doctor including recommending red wine rather than whiskey. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1885.

Three men handing out wine from a high wooden structure to a drunken hoard clutching large jugs, etc. Aquatint, c. 1822.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Peasants sitting, smoking, outside an inn as the hostess pours a glass of ale. Engraving by J. Suyderhoff after A. van Ostade.

A drunkard sits on a barrel spilling drink from a jug and glass. Etching by R. Blyth after P. J. de Loutherbourg.

A gouty man savouring his feast. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after E.Y.

Men with hangovers after a night's heavy drinking; advertising Eno's Fruit Salt. Wood-engraving, 18--, by Dalziel after A. Claxton.

That's the limit : a guide to sensible drinking / [Health promotion Authority for Wales in association with the Health Education Authority].

Institutes of health : essays on constitutional peculiarities, sudden impressions, bathing, animal food, London porter and ale, digestion, dropsy and liver complaints / by John Roberton.

Do your children know more about drugs than you.

Drink in 1914-1922 : a lesson in control / by Arthur Shadwell.

Doctors reduced to drinking in a seedy public house: representing the effect of the various Reform bills introduced by Sir James Graham. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

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Alcoholic Beverages

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Images about Alcoholic Beverages

Works from the collections

That's the limit : a guide to sensible drinking / [Health promotion Authority for Wales in association with the Health Education Authority].

Institutes of health : essays on constitutional peculiarities, sudden impressions, bathing, animal food, London porter and ale, digestion, dropsy and liver complaints / by John Roberton.

Do your children know more about drugs than you.

Drink in 1914-1922 : a lesson in control / by Arthur Shadwell.

Doctors reduced to drinking in a seedy public house: representing the effect of the various Reform bills introduced by Sir James Graham. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Alcoholic Beverages

Images from the collections

Images about Alcoholic Beverages

Works from the collections

That's the limit : a guide to sensible drinking / [Health promotion Authority for Wales in association with the Health Education Authority].

Institutes of health : essays on constitutional peculiarities, sudden impressions, bathing, animal food, London porter and ale, digestion, dropsy and liver complaints / by John Roberton.

Do your children know more about drugs than you.

Drink in 1914-1922 : a lesson in control / by Arthur Shadwell.

Doctors reduced to drinking in a seedy public house: representing the effect of the various Reform bills introduced by Sir James Graham. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

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