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2021
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Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel.
This paper offers a new perspective on historical understandings of the relationship between alcohol, climate and the body, by studying the way that British explorers of tropical Africa drank alcohol and wrote about drink between 1850 and 1910. We demonstrate that alcohol was simultaneously classified as a medicinal, a preventative...Armston-Sheret, Edward ; Walker, Kim
Alcohol, Tropical medicines, Stimulants, Medicines, Tropical temperance, and Africa