Tea against dysentary

I mentioned a few days ago that tea was supposed to be associated with the decrease in cholera in the UK.

I can't remember where that lecture came from, but there is a lecture Cambridge that discusses some of the same issues:

Title:	How did tea help infants against dysentery in England?
Authors:	Macfarlane, Alan
Keywords:	immunology
Issue Date:	5-Aug-2004
Abstract:	How did tea help infants who were not themselves drinking tea to avoid water borne diseases? Alan Macfarlane explains that without tea, the industrial revolution would have been impossible.
URI:	http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/585
Appears in Collections:	Digital Orient ---------------------------------

I believe the original series where I heard the link was in this series of lectures LINK


Files in This Item:

File	Description	Size	Format
lecture_malthus.mp4	strategies1_malthus	220.51 MB	mp4	View/Open
lecture_disease_routes.mp4	strategies2_disease_routes	59.13 MB	mp4	View/Open
McKeown.mp4	strategies3_McKeown	79.45 MB	mp4	View/Open
lecture_strategies_malaria.mp4	strategies4_malaria	245.43 MB	mp4	View/Open
lecture_dysentery.mp4	strategies5_malaria	135.25 MB	mp4	View/Open
lecture_war.mp4	strategies6_war	142.67 MB	mp4	View/Open
lecture_famine.mp4	strategies7_famine	170.51 MB	mp4	View/Open

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Sigh...yes, I know that the lectures have illustrations, but one does wish we could just download them as an MP3...