A Treatise on Sugar: With Miscellaneous Medical Observations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108050500)

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.

Author: Benjamin Moseley
ISBN-10: 1108050506
ISBN-13: 9781108050500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2012
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d