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Corpse Reviver! The History of Medicine in a Cocktail
with Camper English
Join Camper English in a fascinating and informative talk that will shed new light on the history of cocktails. Don't miss it!
Camper English will discuss the broader history of cocktails as medicine, from the ancient Greeks to the Victorian era. He'll show how the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were, until surprisingly recently, one and the same!
In this talk he'll deconstruct the Corpse Reviver No. 2 (gin, aromatized wine, lemon, orange liqueur, absinthe) - a cocktail designed to treat hangovers - and look at how its ingredients juniper (plague), citrus (scurvy), wormwood (intestinal parasites), and even the sugar (lung problems) and distilled alcohol (baldness, gout, kidney stones) were used to combat disease and postpone death.
Camper English is a cocktail and spirits writer and is the author of Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails and most recently, The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts. Camper's website, alcademics.com, features articles on cocktails and booze.
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