Egan bought out the former Mount Lebanon Female Academy and nearly a hundred acres of land to turn out turpentine and medicinal whisky.

Mr. Behr, whose previous books include "The Last Emperor" and "Hirohito," focuses his narrative on George Remus, a large-scale bootlegger who told a Senate committee that he bought licenses from Daugherty and Smith to sell great quantities of "medicinal" bonded whisky.

I took down the bottle of medicinal whisky I kept on the shelf and poured a healthy tot into a cup.

He was infallible, kindly and not above having a go at the medicinal whisky.

Roger had administered medicinal whisky for shock, but his eyes darted toward the telephone now as though wondering whether to dial for additional help-like a straitjacket, I supposed.

Although it was only twenty to eleven, Lloyd poured himself a medicinal whisky.

I had given the slave a good slug of medicinal whisky, by way of fortification.

'That's your medicinal whisky!'