Early history. 1  References to mental disorders in early Egyptian, Indian, Greek, and Roman writings show that the physicians and philosophers who contemplated problems of human behaviour regarded mental illnesses as a reflection of the displeasure of the gods or as evidence of demoniac possession.
In the United States, the most common beer bottle holds 12 ounces of beer. There are also less common beer sizes, which include 11, 22, 24 and 25.4 ounces. A single serving of beer usually refers to 12 ounces in America and has an average alcohol content of 5 percent. Continue Reading.
A standard drink is the amount of alcohol in a 12-ounce beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits. It's a useful way to track alcohol consumption. But the multiple ingredients of mixed drinks make for a harder count.