Romieux Y
Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 1998;45(317):81-8.
Wine and sometimes beer, cider or spirits, on board, represent an attractive pole with several aspects, for these drinks are, all the same considered as food, medicines, rewards or even reproofs when temporarily supressed. If naval hygienist doctors agree with the use of wine, their behaviour still remains ambiguous. Indeed, according to them, spirits are responsible for deep drunkeness as well as physical ans moral decays whereas they are more indulgent regarding wine. The reason might be that, in those times, the wine used as food, was also used as a medicine in therapeutics.
船上的葡萄酒，有时还有啤酒、苹果酒或烈酒，在几个方面都代表着一个有吸引力的极点，因为这些饮品在任何情况下都被视为食物、药品、奖赏，甚至在暂时被禁止时还被视为惩戒。如果海军卫生医生同意饮用葡萄酒，他们的态度仍然含糊不清。的确，在他们看来，烈酒是导致深度醉酒以及身体和道德堕落的原因，而他们对葡萄酒则较为宽容。原因可能是，在那个时代，用作食物的葡萄酒在治疗学中也被用作药物。
