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and ale. Until that point chemists had only been able to measure alcohol in distilled drinks (brandy, gin etc.), which many early temperance reformers had assumed to be a poison. By showing that alcohol was present in fermented drinks from the start (rather than being a by-product of the distillation
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science, Arranged in the Order in which They are Discussed and Illustrated in the Lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, William Thomas Brande and William James MacNeven, 1821, 2nd Ed., Vol. 2,
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process), Brande undermined the long-standing view that spirits were toxic, while wine and beer were more wholesome. These findings were later propagated by the Temperance movement and used to justify total alcoholic abstinence, or teetotalism.
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He studied medicine at Great Windmill Street Medical School and at St George's Hospital, before being drawn to chemistry following a meeting with
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In 1811 he published the first of what were to be two very influential articles on the measurement of alcohol in
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In 1834, 1836, 1839, 1842, 1844, 1847 and 1850 Brande was invited to deliver the
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He married Anna Frederica Hatchett, daughter of the eminent chemist
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From about 1823 onwards, Brande worked increasingly with the
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From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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in 1842. He was working on a new edition when he died at
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In 1812 he was appointed professor of chemistry to the
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Index


Tunbridge Wells
lithium
Bakerian Medal
Copley Medal
FRS
Chemistry

Henry William Pickersgill
FRS
FRSE
chemist
London
Kensington
Westminster School
apothecary
Humphry Davy
fermented drinks
wine
cider
Apothecaries' Society
Board of Agriculture
Sir Humphry Davy
Royal Institution
lithium
lithium oxide
Royal Mint
Tunbridge Wells
Rees's Cyclopædia
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture

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