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Drinking fermented beverages is a sure way to avoid water borne disease, and keeping your forces healthy was the determining factor in these historical contexts
by underbluewaters 9y ago
Drinking fermented beverages is a sure way to avoid water borne disease, and keeping your forces healthy was the determining factor in these historical contexts.
- peterwwillis 9y agoThe only time alcohol was even remotely used to keep people healthy was when lime was in it. The "cleaner water" theory is bunk.
- walshemj 9y agoerr no a quick google will find many military forces destroyed by disease in the pre modern era one of the sieges of Malta for example