Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Paul, Harry W.

Title Bacchic medicine : wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox / Harry W. Paul
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, [2001]
©2001

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  615.854 Pau/Bmw  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Series Clio medica ; 64
The Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 64
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Contents Part 1: Popular and professional wine therapies: 1. People's stories: wine in popular medicine -- 2. An early-nineteenth century German-French model of wine therapy -- Part 2. A remarkable nineteenth-century medicine: 3. Alcohol therapy -- 4. French and British wine therapies -- Part 3. Iatrogenic tales: 5. The debate over the pathogenic nature of plastered wine -- 6. Debates over wine alcohol, Prussian Blue and sulphur dioxide -- Part 4. The renaissance of wine therapy in twentieth century medicine: 7. Establishing the scientific basis of an ancient remedy -- 8. New support from animal models and ionic therapy -- 9. The civilisation of wine and the organisation of doctors -- Part 5. Medicine on the moving fringe: 10. Wine defences against bacteria, heart disease and cancer -- 11. Wine therapy: the future of another illusion?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Subject Wine -- France -- History.
Wine -- Germany -- History.
Wine -- Great Britain -- History.
Wine -- History.
Wine -- Therapeutic use -- History.
Wine -- Health aspects -- History.
ISBN 9042011114 paperback
9042011211 bound
Other Titles Wine and alcohol therapies from Napolean to the French Paradox