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...

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Main Author: Paul, Harry W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [Brill], [2001]
Series:Clio Medica 64
Clio Medica 64
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505 0 |a 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 
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