Despite the Roman physician Galen’s writings, the date circa 170 CE is not the first case of wine being used to heal ill people. Before the Roman Empire became the dominating force that it was around 200 BCE, the Ancient Greeks had noticed the healing qualities of this drink. People noticed that wine, as beer did, made water safe, and also observed how wounds that were treated with wine, had a low probability of becoming infected with the natural antibacterial agents in the beverage. Though no records of any other physician have survived today, Galen’s work has been the most influential in Western medicine. Galen’s ideas were ahead of his time, but wrong in many ways. He wrote about humors, or the four liquids in your body, which were; blood,
