A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the City of Adgra in Bohemia is famous for it (as Brunfwick is for Mum) and it is found no where better. Nay Rauwolff telis us (Trav. Bart i. e. 8.) that even the Turks (who are forbidden Wine by the Mahometan Law) have a Drink at^~ leppo called Tfcherheth made of Honey and Water, which rafteth like our Mead. That the Ancients alio had their ftrong Honey Drink, feems probable from a Paflage I meet with in Rhodiginus (l. 28. c. 27.) Apud Orpheum, Saturnus ab Jove Me Ills ap~ petitur infidiis: Inde enim confopitur velut t emu lent us. Jupiter lurprized Saturn when he had made himfelf drunk with Mead: For I think that muft be what Orpheus meant by it. To conclude this Argument, Drink made of Honey being fo fine and generous a Li¬ quor, as to be comparable even to the ve¬ ry noblelt of the Grape Wines, it’s no won¬ der that Ovid made Bacchus the firft Inven¬ tor thereof, laying, A Baccho Mella reperta ferunt. More than all this, in old times they re- iped:ed Honey as a thing not only deledtable and ufeful to Man, but acceptable alio to the Gods. Mel denique TOiis ac Hominibus gra- turn*) faith Rhodigin. L 21. c. 3.
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