Regardless of whether you're a Tory, or a Labourite; a man or a woman, most Brits agree that Winston Churchill is one of the greatest - if not the greatest - Prime Minister we've ever had.
Churchill's known for fighting in the First World War and then leading Britain to winning the Second one, among a scope of other things. But what he's also known for is his capacity and constitution when it came to booze, once famously saying he had "taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
Churchill, aged 21, probably half-cut
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Today, we're obsessed with moderating our alcohol intake. We never run the risk of mixing our professional life with our personal one. Not Churchill, when he covered the Boer War aged 25 as a war correspondent, he took with him 36 bottles of wine, 18 bottles of ten-year old scotch, and 6 bottles of vintage brandy.
However, that was a personal choice. This prescription given to him on January 26, 1932 by Otto C. Pickhardt M.D and which granted the two-time Prime Minister "the use of alcoholic spirits especially at meal times" was not.
Credit: Winston Churchill Archive/Art Tattler
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The doctor suggested he drank a minimum of 250 cubic centimetres, which is close enough to 10 shots.
"Okay, Churchy," Pickhardt arguably said. "At the least, I want you to smash 10 shots per day, if not more. You know what I mean? Just have fun with it."
In a way, it's a shame doctors aren't this lazy anymore. But at the same time, a massive relief.
Words by Josh Teal
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