1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

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" Yes, I find such a perfection of forms, such a softness and ductility of the tissue in the pale juice of barley, that I, to express its physiology with a few words, might say: ' It is to us in our lifetime like a wrapper which enables our fragile nature unendangered to reach the safe port.' " This quotation is a verbatim translation from a book, The Hygiena of Taste, by the world-famous Italian physician and physiologist, Paolo Montegazza. Nobody will to-day declare that Lager, as we usually call it, has not had the greatest influence upon the devel- opment of nations, especially those of German descent. We do not mean Germans proper of the present time, but all those nations that trace their origin back to the German tribes that wandered, during the fourth and fifth centuries, over the entire part of Europe, and even crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Africa. Yet we would be mistaken to believe that beer was unknown to the ancients. Sophocles and ^Eschylos, those famous Greek tra- gedians, Diodorus of Sicily, Pliny, the greatest repre- sentative of natural philosophy of Roman times, and others, already mention the beer (in Greek, zythos). Famous breweries were at Pelusium in lower Egypt, the Beeropolis of the ancients, as nowadays are Munich in the Old, and New York, St. Louis, and Milwaukee in the New World. The Egyptians made their beer from barley. The secrets of brewing after Egyptian prescriptions were