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Originally Posted by CDAT
Not disagreeing but wondering how much that had to do with they did not know much if anything about purification of water?
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That is probably true. But people are not stupid. They would notice that if you drink beer or wine or other alcohol, you do not get things like cholera, typhoid.
Even if you water down the wine or what have you, the effect is still the same. Hence you read of children being given wine.
Until early 20th century USA, alcohol consumption was incredible. Heck, Sam Adams, one of the "firebrands" of the American Revolution was a brewer by trade!
My $0.02
Mike