Comments by "" (@ericp1139) on "Modern History TV" channel.

  1. You could drink water if you lived near a clean water source. But I’m not sure many townsfolk had access to that?
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  2. Zael Devyon yup, the alcohol acts likes a disinfectant. They weren’t exactly drinking IPAs. They didn’t know about microbes back in the day, just that boiling or adding alcohol to water would give you less chance of death by diarrhea.
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