re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

Which is why, IIRC, medieval folks drank a lot of watered wine, so that the water would likely not make them sick or kill them.
Not they they knew anything about germs and such. Sort of “I don’t know why, but it works” kind of thinking.

It does sort of change one’s view of history to consider that a lot of our ancestors spent a lot of their time slightly sozzled.