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Bacchic medicine : wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French paradox /
Wine has always been a part of popular medicine. Bacchic Medicine analyses the historical role of wine in the treatment of disease and preservation of health. The Hippocratic texts gave wine therapy a canonical statement over two millennia ago; but the nineteenth century was the golden age of alcoho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
[Brill],
[2001]
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| Colección: | Clio Medica
64. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- People's Stories: Wine in Popular Medicine
- An Early-Nineteenth Century German-French Model of Wine Therapy
- Alcohol Therapy
- French and British Wine Therapies
- The Debate Over the Pathogenic Nature of Plastered Wine
- Debates over Wine Alcohol, Prussian Blue, and Sulphur Dioxide
- Establishing the Scientific Basis of an Ancient Remedy
- New Support from Animal Models and Ionic Theory
- The Civilisation of Wine and the Organisation of Doctors
- Wine Defences Against Bacteria, Heart Disease, and Cancer
- Wine Therapy: The future of another illusion?
- Bibliography.