A Treatise on Sugar: With Miscellaneous Medical Observations

by Benjamin Moseley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108050506
• ISBN13: 9781108050500
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"