Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… of the century. Jessica Warner summarises the available data: 1 . Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick [sic] Benefits (London: printed for J. Rorerts, 1714), remark G. ‘In 1700, the average adult drank …
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