Another 'In Our Time' BBC podcast of note.
Everyone should know about the 'Gin Craze' that occurred in Great Britain once distilling came to rival and in some instances to displace fermentation of wine and brewing of beer/ale.
Example of a tech-shift akin to what happened when crack-cocaine in unit dose form was devised during the US cocaine powder insufflation epidemic of the 1975-1985 era, with crack displacing a much more hazardous 'freebase cocaine' self-administration process that involved serious inflammation. (See tragic Richard Pryor story for an example of a freebase casualty.)
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