While on a lecture tour of the USA in 1932, Winston Churchill got a prescription for unlimited alcohol. The doctor claimed that Churchill needed the alcohol to alleviate the pain from injuries sustained due to being hit by a car. There are photos of the prescription on the internet.
Whiskey was used to make medicinal herbs more palatable and as a general painkiller. Interestingly, in 1917 the American Medical Association said alcohol alone had no medicinal properties, but reversed that position pretty much immediately after the Volstead Act was passed in 1919. During Prohibition, the AMA claimed alcohol could treat 27 ailments including asthma and cancer. But the reality was simply that writing prescriptions for alcohol was a good way for doctors and pharmacists to make some extra cash.
14:41 in addition to “Liberty cabbage,” the town of Potsdam, Missouri was renamed “Pershing,” after the General. they brought back the term “liberty cabbage” for World War II. My grandmother, who was a teenager during the Second World War, once told me how not long after Pearl Harbor, a street in her town called “German Street,” was swiftly renamed “American Street.”
Prohibition was also partially responsible for the creation of NASCAR as moonshine runners would often hold races to see who car was the fastest. Some of those same people would later go on to found NASCAR and or become notable figures in the sport, such as the late Junior Johnson. Johnson was actually once arrested in the largest illegal moonshine raid in U.S. history (400 gallons were seized) and later went on to be one of NASCAR's most successful drivers and car owners.
Not exactly. Much of the South was already dry before prohibition ever started, and those states remained dry after it was repealed, so prohibition didn't actually have much of an effect on the birth of stock car racing. Junior Johnson was only two years old when prohibition ended, and he wasn't arrested until the mid-1950s, 20 years after prohibition. The South remained largely dry well after the end WWII, and when the war ended there was a sudden deluge of cheap pre-1940s cars on the used market as the people traded up after the war. These cheap cars became the first "modifieds." It was the heavily Baptist culture of the south, hence the number of dry states, and the end of the war that really gave birth the NASCAR.
It also warrants note that bootleggers would sometimes modify their cars specifically to outpace the police and rivals, which likely would’ve further develop the idea.
There was a pretty similar prohibition law in Finland but it just led to people making pontikka(moonshine) and "kilju" and was later removed because 70% voted to remove the law. The law was removed but a state owned company "Alko" was founded in 1932 and it is still the only shop where you can buy over 5,5% drinks from in Finland and the tax on alcohol is ridiculously high here making purchasing more painful (tax is the highest in Europe i think) and because of it Finns just take a ferry to Estonia to buy car/van full of cheap alcohol from there :D The strength you could buy from regular shops was 4,7% till 2018 and there was a big fight that lifting the limit to 5,5% would lead to the nation getting trashed because of alcoholism :D
The fact of the matter is, Prohibition was trying to treat a symptom, not the actual problem. Life was brutal in the early 20th Century, so people turned to booze. Labor and other kinds of reform might have actually helped.
38:38 my great grandfather, and Irish immigrant himself, was a cop in Chicago, and one of the ones responding to the massacre. I never met the man, but according to those who knew him, he didn’t like talking about the violence back then, and especially didn’t like talking about Capone.
To answer one of your questions, at least in Washington state/Seattle they did import a lot of Asian alcohol, its one of the reasons Seattle produces so much Sake and Shochu themselves instead of purely importing these days.
If I had to guess, they prescribed whisky because even if it didn't help the problem directly it still helped with whatever pains they had by deadening the nerves
I found out while researching genealogy that my paternal grandfather was jailed several times for running a still. Being the daughter of a mean alcoholic, I can understand the logic behind prohibition but, there's nothing that makes people want something more than forbidding them to have it. Complicate that with addiction to alcohol and prohibition was doomed to fail. Moderation is the key to everything. Not sure if it will be mentioned or not but stock car racing has it's roots in running bootleg alcohol.
A now somewhat-forgotten fact: In the 1950's, there was a TV series called "The Untouchables", about the US federal agents who went after, and ultimately convicted, Al Capone. The organization, which was headed by Elliott Ness, was called "untouchable" because they refused to take bribes.
Last time I was in Austria I was getting smashed on vodka and tequila with a group of vacationing swedes. Good times. 17 shots later I flew home still drunk.
Alcohol has many benefits on the human body, from being a stimulant to an anti-inflammatory. It also is more sterile (clean), especially during a time when water was not safe to drink due to pollutants and other unfiltered additives. Would you rather drink something with alcohol or a glass of unfiltered water? There obviously is also a disadvantage in that you can have alcohol poisoning from drinking too much. You could also get sick from bad quality alcohol, too. I also forgot addiction.
I'm addicted to not dying by drinking dirty water.... beer for me please, oh, and I never use pitchforks. PS alcohol poisoning isn't really an issue with beer.... you merely rent it. Ask anyone who drinks beer. Water shortages however due to excessive flushing, well, that's another matter entirely.
I was waiting for your reaction to this video. There’s a lot of information about American politics in the pre-depression 20th century. It was very similar to today. Also, the states that Hoover won were: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
It should be kept in mind that in the nineteenth century they didn't really have refrigeration like we do today, and so the main way of preserving drinks was by fermenting them. So if you wanted something to drink then your options were simply water or something alcoholic.
I’ve been waiting for you to do this! What you must think of this crazy American amendment as an American I am embarrassed but look what they do to weed over here 🤦🏽♀️
That part about toxins being added also happened in Russia, i believe in stalins rule, and it killed a crazy high number of people from what i remember
Yay I finally got time to watch this video about the first era of prohibition in America, sorry for exporting our second round of prohibition to most of the world. Also Canadian whiskey is the best, and I will die on that hill.
Alcohol was used for many things specifically pain some doctors gave out whisky for pain and after surgery, used for disinfectant and when women where giving birth and after for pain when a person did not want morphine then the only other choice was alcohol so basically people told their doctors "Hey doc I have bad back pain and I don't want to risk morphine addiction." the Doctors then say "say no more have a prescription for whisky it is at your local pharmacy,".
At least in Europe some of that "toxins"-part remains. If you buy industrial alcohol (like for cleaning, as fuel or so) it's made really bitter and in some cases toxic.
The border between Canada and the US is actually very porous on the west coast (hence the Oregon Treaty where the US and UK formally agreed on borders in 1846 because there were effectively no natural borders). So I think they just drank Canadian liquor instead of anything imported from East Asia.
3:18 Next to opium, this was the next best thing! 8:59 She will come through your busniess if she finds out you were selling booze and smash all of it! 20:58 It was for the flu, heart disease and depression. 24:13 A preventative measure. 25:32 You mean Sake? 26:32 Of course that was overturned. 30:38 That's Louisianna. 41:17 Here's the one last thing about Capone. Dude was insatiable when it came to the ladies. He managed to catch syphllis which, over time, affected his nervous system to the point where he had the mind of a 7 year old. 43:45 It was Delaware.
I think that we have to take on account that women weren't allowed to vote, but had to accept that all the money their husbands won and even the money that they won ( working class women) were use to buy alcohol rather than to provide food to the family. One other huge problem was violence against women and children. Daddy comes home drunk because he had a bad day and beat his wife and kids. None of any wifes complain to the police was taken seriously. Another point death by alcoolisme. Those poor women ended up widow and on the street. The fact that alcohol was a money maker is just an excuse, as tabac, and coal, etc.. The fact is that alcohol kills, its a drug, you should read Émilie Zola " L 'assomoir " he did describe very well and in détail the ravage of alcohol amongs poor families in France. And why did the doctor prescribe alcohol, for the same reasons they prescribe cocaïne, héroïne, Laudanum, morphine. It was a Juicy market and it was known as the remédies for the poor because they didn't have to go to the doctor , pay him for a prescription, they could just go to any "apothicaire " say I have a headache, here take some morphine with your beer. And on a personal level alcohol did destroy my family. Violence, beating, etc Alcohol is not something innocent because its legal to purchase it. Its a drug.
when thinking why everyone drank alcohol in the first place we have to remember that besides water.. (which wasnt nescecarily healthy either) there wasnt much else... sure you had orange juice but that was frigging expensive and hard to come by in the first place the law regarding the age to buy alcohol is the same in germany,.. you can buy soft alcohol (beer/wine/sparkling wine) at 16 and at 18 you can get hard liquor
You where mostly right but there are records of Chinese tirades being created in china town districts back in 1850. Making them older then both groups they where located in San Francisco and Las Angeles along with New York and Chicago located in China town Districts specifically where you could get for the era very very rare Asian liqueur. What distinguish them is the sale of opium and heroin they are not as big a thing now in North America though still around in some areas but back then they could rival the Italian mafia and Irish gangs look up the Tong war very interesting stuff.
About that comprendo there is actually a lot of people that aren't just not only Irish and Italian but they're also Hispanics Southern Americans and even full-blown Americans simply put Chicago was pretty much a gold mine if you can start your criminal Empire there you're set for life there is actually a game that actually explained it called Empire of sin where you get to play up to 14 known Mafia groups in Chicago at the time
You get a government founded by Merchants, for the first time in recorded human history, and the freedom of NOT being under the heel of a dictator or Monarch is enough to stimulate a beverage market. Can you really blame them? Alcoholism is a causality, not a cause. Temperance was an over reaction to alcoholism, but didn't solve the underlying problem. Dire working conditions, horrible health care and high mortality rates were the leading cause. (see American Wars from 1800 forward) So yeah, Americans like to drink. But one should also understand that we work twice as much and take less vacations than anyone else. Work hard, play hard.
Holy crap dude how early does your family mate my grandfather was born in the late 1800s and I’m only 18 and my grandfathers cousin was a moonshine runner it’s quite common
Europeans drink far more than Americans these days. When in was in Europe having a beer at every meal was typical, but in America you'll get stink eye cuz obviously that's 'alcoholic behavior'.
Germans bring beer Italians bring wine Mexicans bring tequila Yugoslavia bring rakia ;) I whander if USA back then drink much more then East Europeans and even more then Rep. Moldova today is number 1 in oficial and unoficial statistic at consuming alcohol
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About Wayne Wheeler.
He hated alcohol because, as a kid, a drunken farmhand stabbed him with a pitchfork in the thigh.
That'll do it.
ouch
Yeouch
Ah. Yup. That’d do it.
While on a lecture tour of the USA in 1932, Winston Churchill got a prescription for unlimited alcohol. The doctor claimed that Churchill needed the alcohol to alleviate the pain from injuries sustained due to being hit by a car. There are photos of the prescription on the internet.
Whiskey was used to make medicinal herbs more palatable and as a general painkiller. Interestingly, in 1917 the American Medical Association said alcohol alone had no medicinal properties, but reversed that position pretty much immediately after the Volstead Act was passed in 1919.
During Prohibition, the AMA claimed alcohol could treat 27 ailments including asthma and cancer. But the reality was simply that writing prescriptions for alcohol was a good way for doctors and pharmacists to make some extra cash.
14:41 in addition to “Liberty cabbage,” the town of Potsdam, Missouri was renamed “Pershing,” after the General. they brought back the term “liberty cabbage” for World War II. My grandmother, who was a teenager during the Second World War, once told me how not long after Pearl Harbor, a street in her town called “German Street,” was swiftly renamed “American Street.”
Prohibition was also partially responsible for the creation of NASCAR as moonshine runners would often hold races to see who car was the fastest. Some of those same people would later go on to found NASCAR and or become notable figures in the sport, such as the late Junior Johnson. Johnson was actually once arrested in the largest illegal moonshine raid in U.S. history (400 gallons were seized) and later went on to be one of NASCAR's most successful drivers and car owners.
Not exactly. Much of the South was already dry before prohibition ever started, and those states remained dry after it was repealed, so prohibition didn't actually have much of an effect on the birth of stock car racing. Junior Johnson was only two years old when prohibition ended, and he wasn't arrested until the mid-1950s, 20 years after prohibition. The South remained largely dry well after the end WWII, and when the war ended there was a sudden deluge of cheap pre-1940s cars on the used market as the people traded up after the war. These cheap cars became the first "modifieds." It was the heavily Baptist culture of the south, hence the number of dry states, and the end of the war that really gave birth the NASCAR.
It also warrants note that bootleggers would sometimes modify their cars specifically to outpace the police and rivals, which likely would’ve further develop the idea.
There was a pretty similar prohibition law in Finland but it just led to people making pontikka(moonshine) and "kilju" and was later removed because 70% voted to remove the law.
The law was removed but a state owned company "Alko" was founded in 1932 and it is still the only shop where you can buy over 5,5% drinks from in Finland and the tax on alcohol is ridiculously high here making purchasing more painful (tax is the highest in Europe i think) and because of it Finns just take a ferry to Estonia to buy car/van full of cheap alcohol from there :D
The strength you could buy from regular shops was 4,7% till 2018 and there was a big fight that lifting the limit to 5,5% would lead to the nation getting trashed because of alcoholism :D
The fact of the matter is, Prohibition was trying to treat a symptom, not the actual problem. Life was brutal in the early 20th Century, so people turned to booze. Labor and other kinds of reform might have actually helped.
38:38 my great grandfather, and Irish immigrant himself, was a cop in Chicago, and one of the ones responding to the massacre. I never met the man, but according to those who knew him, he didn’t like talking about the violence back then, and especially didn’t like talking about Capone.
chrismas come early, a new essek reaction
Indeed friend,indeed
To answer one of your questions, at least in Washington state/Seattle they did import a lot of Asian alcohol, its one of the reasons Seattle produces so much Sake and Shochu themselves instead of purely importing these days.
"Pressure politics"
"Cancel culture"
Names change. Nothing else does.
If I had to guess, they prescribed whisky because even if it didn't help the problem directly it still helped with whatever pains they had by deadening the nerves
I believe it was also used as a sleep aid from time to time.
In fact one of those dry counties in the United States that remain also happens to contain the headquarters of Jack Daniels. Moore County, Tennessee.
I found out while researching genealogy that my paternal grandfather was jailed several times for running a still. Being the daughter of a mean alcoholic, I can understand the logic behind prohibition but, there's nothing that makes people want something more than forbidding them to have it. Complicate that with addiction to alcohol and prohibition was doomed to fail. Moderation is the key to everything. Not sure if it will be mentioned or not but stock car racing has it's roots in running bootleg alcohol.
Too bad, the currentbdrug war hasn't learned that lesson. A thoughtful post susan ☺
it was delaware and connecticut, not rhode island and massachusetts
Lol
He got so close though. For a German guy in Austria, I'm still impressed with his knowledge of U.S. geography.
@@moonman5880 he’s Croatian
@@steakismeat177 I did not know that. But still just as impressive to me.
Glad you mentioned Croatia, I’m from there keep up the good work.
OS: "Do... You... like... breaking the law?"
Me who's so used to saying yes to OS's ad segways: Yes... WAIT WHAT I'VE BEEN TRICKED
whiskey is good for tooth pain, can help blood circulation bcz it acts like a natural blood thinner n it's good for fighting a cold
A now somewhat-forgotten fact: In the 1950's, there was a TV series called "The Untouchables", about the US federal agents who went after, and ultimately convicted, Al Capone. The organization, which was headed by Elliott Ness, was called "untouchable" because they refused to take bribes.
Alcohol was mostly used as a pain aid if I recall correctly
Primarily a numbing agent and used for tooth pain.
Tooth pain and stomach ailments.
Wayne wheler=ned flanders
Winston churchill?=Homer j simpson
Ich wünsche ihnen eine fröhliche Weihnacht und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
Last time I was in Austria I was getting smashed on vodka and tequila with a group of vacationing swedes. Good times. 17 shots later I flew home still drunk.
Alcohol has many benefits on the human body, from being a stimulant to an anti-inflammatory. It also is more sterile (clean), especially during a time when water was not safe to drink due to pollutants and other unfiltered additives. Would you rather drink something with alcohol or a glass of unfiltered water? There obviously is also a disadvantage in that you can have alcohol poisoning from drinking too much. You could also get sick from bad quality alcohol, too. I also forgot addiction.
I'm addicted to not dying by drinking dirty water.... beer for me please, oh, and I never use pitchforks. PS alcohol poisoning isn't really an issue with beer.... you merely rent it. Ask anyone who drinks beer. Water shortages however due to excessive flushing, well, that's another matter entirely.
Whiskey and moonshine is still relatively commonly used as like a sinus clearer
I was waiting for your reaction to this video. There’s a lot of information about American politics in the pre-depression 20th century.
It was very similar to today.
Also, the states that Hoover won were: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
It should be kept in mind that in the nineteenth century they didn't really have refrigeration like we do today, and so the main way of preserving drinks was by fermenting them. So if you wanted something to drink then your options were simply water or something alcoholic.
I’ve been waiting for you to do this! What you must think of this crazy American amendment as an American I am embarrassed but look what they do to weed over here 🤦🏽♀️
Alcohol has antiseptic properties; it was also probably used as a mild pain reliever, as well as a home remedy for coughs and colds.
Where did a Pub get a cannon?
Only in America today it is automatic weapons back then it was canons LMAO.
The point of prescription Whiskey is that if you are too drunk to know how much pain your in -OK! It works!
We had a version prohibition at the same time here in Australia and the crazy violence that went on with it.
That part about toxins being added also happened in Russia, i believe in stalins rule, and it killed a crazy high number of people from what i remember
Even i dont live in the US my 10 favourite states are: virginia,north carolina, louisiana, maine,rhode island,oregon, washington,idaho,iowa and OHIO!
It's interesting to see the ripple effects of Prohibition, particularly the income tax.
Yay I finally got time to watch this video about the first era of prohibition in America, sorry for exporting our second round of prohibition to most of the world. Also Canadian whiskey is the best, and I will die on that hill.
It's not even the best in North America
Alcohol was used for many things specifically pain some doctors gave out whisky for pain and after surgery, used for disinfectant and when women where giving birth and after for pain when a person did not want morphine then the only other choice was alcohol so basically people told their doctors "Hey doc I have bad back pain and I don't want to risk morphine addiction." the Doctors then say "say no more have a prescription for whisky it is at your local pharmacy,".
I think doctors gave their patients whiskey to cure stomach-ache, but I‘m not sure.
The, still ongoing, series of the Marshalls of Napoleon by Epic History TV would be very interesting!
I would imagine that the high consumption of alcohol in America during the 19th century had to do in large part to unsanitary drinking water
At least in Europe some of that "toxins"-part remains.
If you buy industrial alcohol (like for cleaning, as fuel or so) it's made really bitter and in some cases toxic.
18:01 Is that AVGN without glasses?
Just found your channel. Great content 👍
The border between Canada and the US is actually very porous on the west coast (hence the Oregon Treaty where the US and UK formally agreed on borders in 1846 because there were effectively no natural borders). So I think they just drank Canadian liquor instead of anything imported from East Asia.
What i associate with the USA ?
Harley Davidson, Weapons, Apples Pie and Fast Food.
Bureau of Prohibition aka BOP.
I can imagine them breaking into a Speakeasy and shouting "Get Bopped!!!"😅
I bet that's where Karen came from. Carrie. Nation.
LOL!
3:18 Next to opium, this was the next best thing!
8:59 She will come through your busniess if she finds out you were selling booze and smash all of it!
20:58 It was for the flu, heart disease and depression.
24:13 A preventative measure.
25:32 You mean Sake?
26:32 Of course that was overturned.
30:38 That's Louisianna.
41:17 Here's the one last thing about Capone. Dude was insatiable when it came to the ladies. He managed to catch syphllis which, over time, affected his nervous system to the point where he had the mind of a 7 year old.
43:45 It was Delaware.
New Orleans is in Louisiana, you are correct.
19:20sounds like you were scammed
Prohibition in the USA was largely ended for a financial matter. We needed the Alcohol tax!
Whisky was prescribed if they had a wife
I think that we have to take on account that women weren't allowed to vote, but had to accept that all the money their husbands won and even the money that they won ( working class women) were use to buy alcohol rather than to provide food to the family. One other huge problem was violence against women and children. Daddy comes home drunk because he had a bad day and beat his wife and kids. None of any wifes complain to the police was taken seriously. Another point death by alcoolisme. Those poor women ended up widow and on the street. The fact that alcohol was a money maker is just an excuse, as tabac, and coal, etc.. The fact is that alcohol kills, its a drug, you should read Émilie Zola " L 'assomoir " he did describe very well and in détail the ravage of alcohol amongs poor families in France. And why did the doctor prescribe alcohol, for the same reasons they prescribe cocaïne, héroïne, Laudanum, morphine. It was a Juicy market and it was known as the remédies for the poor because they didn't have to go to the doctor , pay him for a prescription, they could just go to any "apothicaire " say I have a headache, here take some morphine with your beer.
And on a personal level alcohol did destroy my family. Violence, beating, etc
Alcohol is not something innocent because its legal to purchase it. Its a drug.
Don't forget that there's a southern border too. Mexico has been a great smuggling partner of the U.S. for centuries.
Yeah most were irish and Italian they had alot of tension between each other
Pre merry christmas
when thinking why everyone drank alcohol in the first place we have to remember that besides water.. (which wasnt nescecarily healthy either) there wasnt much else... sure you had orange juice but that was frigging expensive and hard to come by in the first place
the law regarding the age to buy alcohol is the same in germany,.. you can buy soft alcohol (beer/wine/sparkling wine) at 16 and at 18 you can get hard liquor
23:09 mexico :im a joke
Collab with Mr Terry history when?
You where mostly right but there are records of Chinese tirades being created in china town districts back in 1850. Making them older then both groups they where located in San Francisco and Las Angeles along with New York and Chicago located in China town Districts specifically where you could get for the era very very rare Asian liqueur. What distinguish them is the sale of opium and heroin they are not as big a thing now in North America though still around in some areas but back then they could rival the Italian mafia and Irish gangs look up the Tong war very interesting stuff.
About that comprendo there is actually a lot of people that aren't just not only Irish and Italian but they're also Hispanics Southern Americans and even full-blown Americans simply put Chicago was pretty much a gold mine if you can start your criminal Empire there you're set for life there is actually a game that actually explained it called Empire of sin where you get to play up to 14 known Mafia groups in Chicago at the time
Carrie nation more like carrot nation
25:14 cough cough west coast
Sake
Hey! Cool video, nice to get some input
Are you from Germany or Austria?
Grüße aus Innsbruck :)
Aus Kroatien, aber wohne und arbeite in Österreich. :)
Top Job bei den Videos, weiter so!
You get a government founded by Merchants, for the first time in recorded human history, and the freedom of NOT being under the heel of a dictator or Monarch is enough to stimulate a beverage market. Can you really blame them? Alcoholism is a causality, not a cause. Temperance was an over reaction to alcoholism, but didn't solve the underlying problem. Dire working conditions, horrible health care and high mortality rates were the leading cause. (see American Wars from 1800 forward) So yeah, Americans like to drink. But one should also understand that we work twice as much and take less vacations than anyone else. Work hard, play hard.
Whisky is more for wounds
My great-great-great-grandfather was a bootlegger so I have ties to prohibition
Holy crap dude how early does your family mate my grandfather was born in the late 1800s and I’m only 18 and my grandfathers cousin was a moonshine runner it’s quite common
@@mazdaman2315 I don't know
@@lucyla9947 sorry if I sounded snarky I’m just extremely tired
@@mazdaman2315 It's fine
Europeans drink far more than Americans these days. When in was in Europe having a beer at every meal was typical, but in America you'll get stink eye cuz obviously that's 'alcoholic behavior'.
When’s your next livestream?
21?
Ohio,michigan,ilinoi
whiskey was perscribed for tooth aches and stuff lick that
Germans bring beer
Italians bring wine
Mexicans bring tequila
Yugoslavia bring rakia ;)
I whander if USA back then drink much more then East Europeans and even more then Rep. Moldova today is number 1 in oficial and unoficial statistic at consuming alcohol
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Prohibition is maybe the stupidest thing that happened in USA. Still don't get it...
Asia would have been way too far
Ah such unhealthy 2:00
Remus kinda based tho
the 23rd amendment or what?
Hilarious
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