Spiced wine, sweetened with sugar or honey, perhaps the original of the modern liqueur, was employed occasionally under the name of hippocras.
A cordial made of Lisbon and Canary wines, bruised spices, and sugar; so called from the strainer through which it is passed, called by apothecaries Hippocrates' sleeve Hippocrates in the Middle Ages was called "Yypocras" or "Hippocras " Thus: "Well knew he the old Esculapius, And Deiscorides, and cek Rufus, Old Yypocras, Haly, and Galien Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Prologue, 431) Hippocratean School A school of medicine, so called from Hippocrates (See Dogmatic )
A wine made from fermented grape juice & honey to which medicinal herbs are added, which also provide flavour & bouquet Can be drunk hot or cold
() From Old French ipocras, ypocras (“Hippocrates”), after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”) (because it was filtered through a Hippocrates sleeve).