caa a22 4500 388016159 CHVBK 20180307124910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008938900016022 doi S0008938900016022 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008938900016022 Tlusty B. Ann Water of Life, Water of Death: The Controversy over Brandy and Gin in Early Modern Augsburg [Elektronische Daten] [B. Ann Tlusty] "It is good for those who are sad or down-hearted [...] It brings one back to bodily strength, and makes one lusty and merry,” wrote Hieronymus Brunschwig of brandy in his Book of Distilling in 1532. Distilled liquors were was "wonder drugs” of the early modern period, prescribed medicinally both as prevention and cure for virtually every known malady, of the spirit as well as the body. According to Brunschwig, the capacity of brandy actually to lengthen one's life was the basis for its medieval appellation aqua vitae (water of life). The potential for the abuse of these "medicines,” however, was evident to medical and legal bodies alike; the "water of life” could become a "water of death,” as physician Sigismund Klose noted in 1697. Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1998 Central European History Cambridge University Press 31/1-2(1998-03), 1-30 0008-9389 31:1-2<1 1998 31 CCC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938900016022 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938900016022 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tlusty B. Ann NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Central European History Cambridge University Press 31/1-2(1998-03), 1-30 0008-9389 31:1-2<1 1998 31 CCC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge