This section is from "The Domestic Encyclopaedia Vol4", by A. F. M. Willich. Amazon: The Domestic Encyclopaedia.
Wort, is an infusion of malt, from which different kinds of AlE and Beer are brewed.
Wort possesses considerable antiseptic properties, and has often proved an excellent diet-drink, which remarkably promoted the cure of the true Scurvy : - it may also be advantageously used as common beverage, in cancerous ulcers, and in all other cases, where a strong putrid disposition prevails in the fluids.
 
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