What starts out as an innocent recipe book for healing “water” tonics for literally anything that ails you in the late 1600s, turns you into questioning, “What sound does a snail actually make?” “Would WebMD perhaps prove useful to apothecaries of this era?” “Add 3 GALLONS of beer?!? Hmm... Sounds legit to me.”
0:00 - intro
3:27 - Dramatic Reading of A Queens Delight
25:02 - A (not so) brief discussion
A Queens Delight by E. Tyler and R. Holt (1671)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aqua%20vitae
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