Photo of a bottle from the Museum of American History,

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  • grue@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Yep, there wasn’t really a choice about that. Alcohol is a solvent necessary for making extracts and stuff, so eliminating that entire class of ingredients would’ve severely restricted what sorts of medicines could be made.