Toddy
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Historical References
"The Times", of London, 9th April 1792
"They contrived to make him drink a good dose of toddy, to which they added a dose of bang, which soon left him in a state of insensibility."
"The Edinburgh Advertiser", 7th November 1786
"To every class of my readers I beg leave to suggest a caution against the use of TODDY. I acknowledge that I have known some men who, by limiting its strength constantly, by measuring the spirit and water, and who, by drinking it only with their meals, have drank toddy for several years without suffering in any degree from it; but I have known many more who have been insensibly led from drinking toddy for their constant drink, to take drams in the morning, and have afterwards paid their lives as the price of their folly."
"Memoirs of a Water Drinker", By William Dunlap, 1837
"...the enticing toddy, with ice, at one season, and smoking hot at the other, as a prelude to dinner..."
