‘Salt meat […] is prejudicial to the health of the troops’: the battles between doctors and the British Empire over army diet in the nineteenth-century Caribbean
Nineteenth-century British and Caribbean sources show that European colonists were constantly struggling to maintain their health in a little-understood tropical climate; they engaged in frequent discussion and the exchange of advice on the preservation of their health. This article reveals that the...
Main Author: | Ilaria Berti |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2020-12-01
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Series: | Culture & History Digital Journal |
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Online Access: | http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/193 |
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