Author: Thomas Low NicholsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Diet Cure. An Essay on the Relations of Food and Drink. Health, Disease and Cure
Author: Thomas Low NicholsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Eating to Live. The Diet Cure: an Essay on the Relations of Food and Drink to Health, Disease and Cure
Author: Thomas Low NicholsThe Wallace system of cure
Author: Oskar KorsheltThe Diet cure
Author: Thomas Low NicholsMedical Times
Author: The World of Sugar
Author: Ulbe BosmaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674293320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
“[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”—Los Angeles Review of Books The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way? The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production. Through the Middle Ages, traders brought small quantities of the precious white crystals to rajahs, emperors, and caliphs. But after sugar crossed the Mediterranean to Europe, where cane could not be cultivated, demand spawned a brutal quest for supply. European cravings were satisfied by enslaved labor; two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century, sugar was a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America. Sugar transformed life on every continent, creating and destroying whole cultures through industrialization, labor migration, and changes in diet. Sugar made fortunes, corrupted governments, and shaped the policies of technocrats. And it provoked freedom cries that rang with world-changing consequences. In Ulbe Bosma’s definitive telling, to understand sugar’s past is to glimpse the origins of our own world of corn syrup and ethanol and begin to see the threat that a not-so-simple commodity poses to our bodies, our environment, and our communities.
New York Medical Times
Author: New York Journal of Homœopathy
Author: The Darkened Room
Author: Alex OwenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226642054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums—it's an exploration of the era's gender relations. The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventional class and gender relations in the home and in society. Using previously unexamined sources and an innovative approach, Alex Owen invokes the Victorian world of darkened séance rooms, theatrical apparitions, and moving episodes of happiness lost and regained. She charts the struggles between spiritualists and the medical and legal establishments over the issue of female mediumship, and provides new insights into the gendered dynamics of Victorian society.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description