Galen proposed a series of therapeutic treatments for the disease, including : opium as a sleeping agent and painkiller; blood letting; a diet of barley water, fish, and fruit.
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The food rationing was also rather severe, but the workers were allowed to drink as much barley water and milk as they liked, due to the nature of their jobs.
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:Since you are apparently familiar with the taste of various organic solvents, but dislike barley water, I think you defy classification . talk ) 15 : 06, 13 December 2011 ( UTC)
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Another alcoholic drink known by the same name, enjoyed in the 18th century, was prepared by boiling barley in water, then mixing the barley water with white wine and other ingredients, such as borage, lemon and sugar.
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Adenauer credited his vigorous health in his later years to the use of an infusion of barley water taken at night, but also maize stigma, mallow, sage, and yellow roses, which he used for coughs he was prone to.
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Procopio had a special royal license from King Louis XIV to sell a melange of refreshments including spices, iced drinks including " frozen waters ", barley water, anice flower, orange flower, cinnamon flower, frangipan, and his improved version of the Italian " ice cream " of fruit based gelatos like lemon and orange.
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They all received the same diet but, in addition, group one was given a quart of cider daily, group two twenty-five drops of elixir of vitriol ( sulfuric acid ), group three six spoonfuls of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater, group five received two oranges and one lemon, and the last group a spicy paste plus a drink of barley water.
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Although this basic idea was given different emphases by successive theorists, the remedies they advocated ( and which the navy accepted ) amounted to little more than the consumption of fizzy drinks to activate the digestive system, the most extreme of which was the regular consumption of elixir of vitriol sulphuric acid taken with spirits and barley water and laced with spices.
