Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton.

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE DRINKS OF ANTIQUITY. Egypt : Method of Wine-Making—Early Wines—Names of Wines —Ladies and Wine—Beer, etc. Assyria : List of Assur-ba-ni- pal’s Wines—Method of Drinking—Different Sorts of Wine. Hittite : Two Ladies Drinking—Their Appreciation of Wine —The Hittite Bacchus. Judea: Mention of Wines in the Old Testament—Wine as an Article of Commerce—Mixed Wines— Wine Vessels. AS any man been bold enough to attempt to fix upon the discoverer of Wine ? Not to our knowledge. Nor can a date be even hazarded as to its introduction. It was so good a thing, that we may be sure that men very soon came to know its revivifying effects. We do know this : that the oldest records of which we have any cognisance, those of the Egyp- tians (who were in a high state of civilization and culture when the Hebrews were semi-barbarous nomads), show us that they had wine, and used it in a most refined manner, as we see by the headpiece to this chapter. Here a father is nursing his child, who i