Cocktails are compounds very much used by "early birds" to fortify the inner man, and by those who like their consolations hot and strong: Terrington (1869)p. 180
I have myself invented eleven, and had nine named after me ... employed a mathematician to figure out how many could be fashioned of the materia bibulica ordinarily available in a first-rate bar ... the number was 17,864,391,788. We tried 273 at random, and found them all good, though some, of course, were better than others.Mencken (1945)p. 256
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A. Lyman Phillips, A bachelor's cupboard (Bostoniae: Luce, 1906) p. 162
