1871 Oxford Night Caps a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university

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it is an ex~llent antiseptic, and well calcu– lated to supply the place of wine in resisting putrefaction, especially if drank cold with plenty of sugar; it also promotes perspiration : but if drank hot and immoderately, it creates acidity in the stomach, weakens the nerves, and gives rise to complaints of the breast. He further states, that after a heavy meal it is improper, as it may check digestion, and injure the stomach.• Rennie states, that he once heard a face.. tious physician at a public hospital prescribe for a poor fellow sinking under the atrophy of starvation, a bowl of Rum Punch. Mr Wadd gives us a prescription-" Rum, aqua dulci miscetur acetum, et fiet ex tali fredere nobile Punch." He also states, that Toddy, or Punch without acid, when made for a day or two before it is used, is a good and-cheap substitute for wine as a tonic, in convalescence from typhus fever, &c. *Fielding mentions a Clergyman who preferred Punch to Wine for this orthodox reason, that the former was a liquor no where spoken against in Scripture.