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Description:Chapters: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (Montdidier August 12, 1737 December 13, 1813) is remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source (for humans) in France and throughout Europe. However, this was not his only contribution to nutrition and health; he was responsible for the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign (under Napoleon starting in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service), he was a pioneer in the extraction of sugar from sugar beets, he founded a school of breadmaking, and he studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration. While serving as an army pharmacist for France in the Seven Years' War, he was captured by the Prussians, and in prison in Prussia was faced with eating potatoes, known to the French only as hog feed. The potato had been introduced to Europe as early as 1640, but (outside of Ireland) was usually used for animal feed. King Frederick II of Prussia had required peasants to cultivate the plants under severe penalties and had provided them cuttings. In 1748 the French Parliament had actually forbidden the cultivation of the potato (on the ground that it was thought to cause leprosy among other things), and this law remained on the books in Parmentier's time. From his return to Paris in 1763 he pursued his pioneering studies in nutritional chemistry. His prison experience came to mind in 1772 when he proposed (in a contest sponsored by the Academy of Besancon) use of the potato as a source of nourishment for dysenteric patients. He won the prize on behalf of the potato in 1773. Thanks largely to Parmentier's efforts, the Pari...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=195107We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with French Pharmacologists: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran. To get started finding French Pharmacologists: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Chapters: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (Montdidier August 12, 1737 December 13, 1813) is remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source (for humans) in France and throughout Europe. However, this was not his only contribution to nutrition and health; he was responsible for the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign (under Napoleon starting in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service), he was a pioneer in the extraction of sugar from sugar beets, he founded a school of breadmaking, and he studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration. While serving as an army pharmacist for France in the Seven Years' War, he was captured by the Prussians, and in prison in Prussia was faced with eating potatoes, known to the French only as hog feed. The potato had been introduced to Europe as early as 1640, but (outside of Ireland) was usually used for animal feed. King Frederick II of Prussia had required peasants to cultivate the plants under severe penalties and had provided them cuttings. In 1748 the French Parliament had actually forbidden the cultivation of the potato (on the ground that it was thought to cause leprosy among other things), and this law remained on the books in Parmentier's time. From his return to Paris in 1763 he pursued his pioneering studies in nutritional chemistry. His prison experience came to mind in 1772 when he proposed (in a contest sponsored by the Academy of Besancon) use of the potato as a source of nourishment for dysenteric patients. He won the prize on behalf of the potato in 1773. Thanks largely to Parmentier's efforts, the Pari...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=195107We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with French Pharmacologists: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran. To get started finding French Pharmacologists: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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French Pharmacologists: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Monique Adolphe, Louis Couty, Adolphe-Marie Gubler, Joseph Willot, Eugene Soubeiran

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