That was not medicine -- as there was actually none that needed to be taken. The little Tsarevich was having a taste of the food being served the enlisted men on duty aboard the Standart, just as his father did. This was a custom observed by superior officers when they came to visit their troops for the day, and there is no doubt that like all sons that age, Alexei Nikolaevich loved to do things in imitation of his father.
