Author: sir John Sinclair (1st bart.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The code of health and longevity; or, A concise view of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. (The contents of the 3 last vols. are left out. Several chapters are added).
Author: sir John Sinclair (1st bart.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Code of Health and Longevity
Author: Sir John SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide (1024 BCE to 1899):
Author: William ShurtleffPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914691
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 1283
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 351 color photos or illustrations, Free of charge in digital format on Google Books,
Patients and Practitioners
Author: Roy PorterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530613
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself.
Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2
Author: Markman EllisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040232612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.
Herbs and Roots
Author: Tamara Venit SheltonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243618
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia medica crossing between China and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues, has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both facilitating and undermining the consolidation of medical authority among formally trained biomedical scientists in the United States. Practitioners of Chinese medicine, as racial embodiments of "irregular" medicine, became useful foils for Western physicians struggling to assert their superiority of practice. At the same time, Chinese doctors often embraced and successfully employed Orientalist stereotypes to sell their services to non-Chinese patients skeptical of modern biomedicine. What results is a story of racial constructions, immigration politics, cross-cultural medical history, and the lived experiences of Asian Americans in American history.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: Monthly Review
Author: George Edward GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
Author: David GentilcorePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472528425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical advice on what to eat in order to stay healthy. It provides the first in-depth study of printed dietary advice covering the entire early modern period, from the late-15th century to the early-19th; it is also the first to trace the history of European foodways as seen through the prism of this advice. David Gentilcore offers a doctor's-eye view of changing food and dietary fashions: from Portugal to Poland, from Scotland to Sicily, not forgetting the expanding European populations of the New World. In addition to exploring European regimens throughout the period, works of materia medica, botany, agronomy and horticulture are considered, as well as a range of other printed sources, such as travel accounts, cookery books and literary works. The book also includes 30 illustrations, maps and extensive chapter bibliographies with web links included to further aid study. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is the essential introduction to the relationship between food, health and medicine for history students and scholars alike.