A treatise on sugar
Subtitle: with miscellaneous medical observations
Contributors: University of Glasgow. Library
Edition: Second edition, with considerable additions.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Sugar; Therapeutic use; Sugar growing; Physiological effect
Description: Benjamin Moseley (1742-1819) was an English doctor who left England and spent eighteen years working in Kingston, Jamaica. His time there coincided with the massive expansion of sugar production on the island. Drawing on his own experience as well as an extensive range of classical and contemporary published sources, Moseley presents a lively history of the cultivation and use of sugar cane. The work, first published in 1799 and expanded in this second edition in 1800, discusses the origins of the plant and its later cultivation and development in the Americas, as well as the popularity of refined sugar. Special attention is devoted to the plant's medicinal uses. Moseley also became known for his outspoken opposition to the growing practice of vaccination, and he uses a medical essay in the appendix of this book to launch an attack on the effectiveness of cowpox in inoculations.
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