Once we figured out how to distil alcohol in persia in the 8th century, boy, it took off...

Once we figured out how to distil alcohol in persia in the 8th century, boy, it took off like wildfire. European monks made medicine out of it. Persian surgeons used it as anesthetic and during prohibition in america, the only way you could alcohol was if a doctor prescribed it. Here in the backwoods, we've always used it as medicine. The local liquor man was also the town doctor, nurse and pharmacist. And now, we make tinctures with herbs we gather in the woods and roots and berries have been added to the mash and ran in the stills. And this, right here,
is always good medicine