For sprains and swellings, one pint of cider vinegar and half a pint of spirits of turpentine added to three well beaten eggs was said to give speedy relief.

It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.

* A half pint ( 284 ml ) of beer with 3. 5 % ABV contains almost exactly one unit ; however, most beers are stronger.

* Stronger beer ( 6 %- 12 %) may contain as much as 2 units per half pint.

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.

A popular drink in the West Midlands, " Brown and Mild " is a mix of half a pint of mild and a bottle of Brown Ale in a pint glass.

In the North West of England a mixture of half a pint of mild and half a pint of bitter is known as a " mixed ".

Each monk is allowed a pound of bread and a hemina ( probably about half a pint ) of wine.

Mrs Waters ' The Cook's Decameron suggests the following recipe: the sauce is made by placing three-quarters of a pint of white sauce into a saucepan, and when it is nearly boiling, adding half a cup of concentrated fowl stock.

In 1940, a national milk scheme was launched which provided a pint of milk at about half price for all children under the age of five, and for expectant or nursing mothers.

In Britain, " cider " always means an alcoholic drink of fermented apple juice and is served by the pint or half pint like beer.

His catchphrase is " I'll have a half ", in reference to a half pint of beer.

When Joseph Priestley was at college at Daventry Academy 1752 – 1755, he records that, during the morning of Wednesday 22 May 1754, he “ went with a large company to drink whey .” This was probably ‘ sack whey ’ or ‘ wine whey .’ A contemporary recipe for ‘ wine whey ’ instructs: “ Put a pint of skimmed milk, and half a pint of white wine into a basin, let it stand a few minutes, then pour over it a pint of boiling water, let it stand a little, and the curd will gather in a lump, and settle to the bottom, then pour your whey into a China bowl, and put in a lump of sugar, a sprig of balm, or a slice of lemon .”

The pint ( abbreviated as " pt " or " p ") is a unit of volume or capacity that was once used across much of Europe with values varying from state to state from less than half a litre to over one litre.

It is a very common thing to do to go " de tapas " or " tapear " i. e. to go for a few drinks (" un corto ", which is a very small beer, " una caña ", which is roughly half a pint of beer or " un vino ", a glass of wine ) just before lunch but more normally as a light form of dinner.

Following Britain's conquest of Jamaica in 1655, a half pint or " 2 gills " of rum gradually replaced beer and brandy as the drink of choice.

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.

Inefficiency comes not just from the fact that the device is always conducting to some extent ( that happens even with class AB, yet its efficiency can be close to that of class B ); it is that the standing current is roughly half the maximum output current ( although this can be less with square law output stage ), together with the problem that a large part of the power supply voltage is developed across the output device at low signal levels ( as with classes AB and B, but unlike output stages such as class D ).

During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".

While current field hockey appeared in the mid-18th century in England, primarily in schools, it was not until the first half of the 19th century that it became firmly established.

In only 8 out of the current 27 member states of the European Union ( EU ) are more than half of the employed population members of a trade union.

The difference in character of these two regions arises from the fact that in the northern half the ocean current which flows south between Madagascar and the mainland is close to the coast, and scours out all the softer material, while at the same time the corals are building in deep waters.

The first ever systematic description of global disability arising in youth, published in 2011, found that among 10 to 24 year olds nearly half of all disability ( current and as estimated to continue ) was due to mental and neurological conditions, including substance use disorders and conditions involving self-harm.

This results in more than half + V volts being applied to R4 causing current into the base of Q1, thus keeping it on.

As for the 50 Tg case involving one third of current nuclear arsenals, they said that the simulation " produced climate responses very similar to those for the 150 Tg case, but with about half the amplitude ," but that " the time scale of response is about the same.

This " strategy " of the gradual dismantling Paramount's assets and library has continued under current Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman who not only split the company in half and gave the television library and distribution rights to the feature films to CBS, but also sold off the Company's music library, Famous Music.

Currently reserves are at a US $ 43 billion level for the third half of 2010, which slightly surpasses current total foreign debt.

When the current to the coil is switched off, the armature is returned by a force, approximately half as strong as the magnetic force, to its relaxed position.

The magnetic energy stored by a coil carrying a current is given by one half of the inductance of the coil times the square of the current.

Each firing of the railgun produces tremendous current flow ( almost half a million amperes ) through the rails, causing rapid erosion of the rail's surfaces ( through ohmic heating, and even vaporization of the rail-surface.

On current data, slightly over half of the Thai population owns a mobile cellular telephone, with more numbers allocated than number of population.

The current owner of the show, 20th Century Fox, released the show on DVD starting in the first half of 2007, using " soundalike " versions of music for which they could not obtain rights.

The current age of this star is about 455 million years, or up to about half its expected total main sequence life span.

At this time, there were fewer than half the current number of people on the planet.

During the first half of the 1980s, the yen failed to rise in value even though current account surpluses returned and grew quickly.

In the first half of the 20th century, addressing information is by using a rotary dial, which rapidly breaks the line current into pulses, with the number of pulses conveying the address.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

He has become in this half century the grand old man of American history.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

Edzard Ernst has said that in Austria and Germany complementary and alternative medicine is mainly in the hands of physicians, while some estimates suggest that at least half of American alternative practitioners are physicians.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

Conservative Judaism enjoyed rapid growth in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the largest American Jewish denomination.

Young was traded back to Cleveland, the place where he played over half his career, before the 1909 season, to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

Housing was mostly one and a half to two story front gable American Foursquare and simplified Queen Anne style.

Only two people are known to have read two independent editions: the author C. S. Forester and Amos Urban Shirk, an American businessman, who read the 11th and 14th editions, devoting roughly three hours per night for four and a half years to read the 11th.

The first half of the 20th century saw a trend to increasing engine power, particularly in the American models.

Venezuela claimed more than half of the territory of the British colony of Guyana at the time of the Latin American wars of independence, a dispute that was settled by arbitration in 1899.

It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Between 1846 and 1874, an estimated 8, 000 gray whales were killed by American and European whalemen, with over half having been killed in the Magdalena Bay complex ( Estero Santo Domingo, Magdalena Bay itself, and Almejas Bay ) and by shore whalemen in California and Baja California.

The fact that only half of the American population believe that global warming is caused by human activity could be seen as a victory for these so-called skeptics.