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 | | Doctor Turner is not content merely to enumerate the wines being drunk in England at the time — wines of Bordeaux, Spain, the Rhine, etc; but he describes their characteristics, their effects when drunk in moderation or to excess, how to fine and rack them, the frauds perpetrated on them by dishonest merchants or tavern-keepers. |
| | Turner was educated at Cambridge, took holy orders and became a Protestant reformer, but his strong religious views led to his exile in 1540. |
| | Turner "was the first Englishman who studied plants scientifically, and his ‘Herbal’ marks the start of the science of botany in England." Of Turner's writings, Charles Cooper (Cambridge, 1858), lists 34 titles. |
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