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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 517 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIPPOCRAS , an old medicinal drink or cordial, made of See also:

wine mixed with spices—such as See also:cinnamon, See also:ginger and See also:sugar—and strained through woollen cloths. The See also:early spelling usual in See also:English was ipocras, or ypocras. The word is an See also:adaptation of the Med. See also:Lat. Vinum See also:Hip pocraticum, or wine of See also:Hippocrates, so called, not because it was supposed to be a See also:receipt of the physician, but from an See also:apothecary's name for a strainer or See also:sieve, "Hippocrates' See also:sleeve " (see W. W. See also:Skeat, See also:Chaucer, See also:note to the See also:Merchant's See also:Tale).

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