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

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    According- to the Abodah Zcirah, a treatise on false worship, there was a mixed drink used in Babylon called Cuttack, which possessed marvellous properties. “It obstructs the heart, blinds the eyes, and emaciates the body. It obstructs the heart, because it contains whey of milk; it blinds the eyes, because it contains a peculiar salt which has this property; and it emaciates the body, because of the putrefied bread which is mixed with it. If poured upon stones, it breaks them ; and of it is a proverb, ‘ That it is better to eat a stinking fish than take Cuttack.’ ” The same treatise also mentions Median beer and Edomite vinegar. The Hittites had been a powerful and civilized nation when the Jews were in an exceedingly primitive condition, and Abraham found them the rightful possessors of Hebron, in Southern Palestine (Gen. xxiii.), and so far recognised their rights to the soil, as