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HIPPOCRAS

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 517 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HIPPOCRAS , an old medicinal drink or cordial, made of wine mixed with spicessuch as
cinnamon
 ,
ginger
  and sugarand strained through woollen cloths. The early spelling usual in
English
  was ipocras, or ypocras. The word is an adaptation of the Med. Lat. Vinum Hip pocraticum, or wine of Hippocrates, so called, not because it was supposed to be a receipt of the physician, but from an apothecary's name for a strainer or
sieve
 , "Hippocrates'
sleeve
  " (see W. W.
Skeat
 , Chaucer,
note
  to the
Merchant
 's Tale).


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