Bacchic medicine : wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox / Harry W. Paul.

  • Paul, Harry W.
Date:
2001
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Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2001.

Physical description

vii, 341 pages ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-320) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Popular and professional wine therapies -- pt. II. A remarkable nineteenth-century medicine -- pt. III. Iatrogenic tales -- pt. IV. The renaissance of wine therapy in twentieth-century French medicine -- pt. V. Medicine on the moving fringe: prevention and paradox.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9042011211
  • 9042011114