Bacchic medicine : : wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French paradox / / Harry W. Paul.
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...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2001] |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 341 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.