The history of drink : $b A review, social, scientific, and politicalSamuelson, James
History
The history of drink : $b A review, social, scientific, and political
Samuelson, James
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- History; Temperance -- History
Eubulus, a comedy writer, on cabbage an antidote to drunkenness
(verses), 75.
on hard drinking, 82.
Eucharist, the, probable origin of, in the Vedic age, 36.
Evelyn, John, his anecdote of William of Orange, 152.
F
Farm Labourers, improved habits of, 187, 188 and _note_.
probable effect of enfranchisement on, 188.
“Footings” formerly spent in drink, 183.
Fosbrooke, on irregularities of nunneries, 124.
on eating and drinking customs of monks, 130-132.
satires on monastic drunkenness (verses) 143, (verses) 145.
on friars and clerics, 145.
Framjee, Dosabhoy, on the modern Parsees, 57.
Fraser on the saturnalia of modern India, 45.
Persian drinking customs, 54.
Friars, character of, 145.
G
Gay’s “Court of Death,” 168.
Germany, ancient, drinks of, 102, 104.
ancient, intemperance in, 102, 103.
effects of drinking, 104.
mediæval, laws against drunkenness in, 105.
temperance societies of, 106.
students’ drinking songs, 107.
drinking code of, 107, 110.
universality of drunkenness in, 112.
introduction of tea, coffee, and chocolate into, 115.
modern, sobriety in, 117.
Gibbon on drunkenness in imperial Rome, 100.
Giles on modern Chinese drinking customs, 31, 32.
Gin Act, the, 161, 162.
failure and results of, 163.
repealed, 162, 163.
Giraldus Cambrensis, his account of a prior’s dinner, 130.
the Irish clergy, 130.
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., effects of his fiscal legislation on
intemperance, 182.
on heroic remedies for drunkenness, 244.
Glasgow, causes of drunkenness in, 170.
reputed to be the most drunken town in Britain, 174.
Gloucester (Massachusetts), bitters said to be advertised in cemetery
in, 214.
Gothenburg, licensing system in, 199.
causes of intemperance in, 199.
taverns in, 199.
Greece, supposed origin of wine in, 78.
wines of, 89.
Greig, Major, Liverpool statistics of intemperance by, 178.
Gull, Sir W., on drinking habits of upper classes, 171.
H
Hallam on the immoralities of mediæval monasteries, 144.
Hardy on Buddhist total abstinence, 28.
Hashish, various names of, 51.
Haug on the Vedic Soma sacrifice, 36.
on the sacrifices of the modern Parsees, 50.
Healths, French views concerning the drinking of, in the seventeenth
century, 154.
Hebrews, various intoxicating drinks of, 59, 64.
drunkenness amongst the, 65.
sobriety of modern, 70, 71.
Help-ales, 134.
Henderson, Colonel, statistics of Metropolitan Police, 178.
Henry VIII., dissoluteness of his court, 149.
makes a German envoy drunk, 149.
Herodotus on palm wine, 11.
on drinking habits of ancient Persians, 51, 52.
Herodotus denies existence of grapes in ancient Egypt, 73.
Hogarth, his pictures of debauchery, 167.
_Homa_, drink of ancient Persians, 50.
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