Medical comforts during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
In the literature of the exploration of the Antarctic in the early 20th century, there are many references to ‘medical comforts’. While ‘medical comforts’ was sometimes used as a euphemism for alcoholic beverages, the term, which originated in the army, covered all foods and drinks used for the trea...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4563790 2023-05-15T13:49:24+02:00 Medical comforts during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration Guly, H. R. 2013-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563790/ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247411000799 en eng Cambridge University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563790/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0032247411000799 © Cambridge University Press 2012 The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/>. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. CC-BY-NC-SA Research Article Text 2013 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247411000799 2015-09-13T00:13:09Z In the literature of the exploration of the Antarctic in the early 20th century, there are many references to ‘medical comforts’. While ‘medical comforts’ was sometimes used as a euphemism for alcoholic beverages, the term, which originated in the army, covered all foods and drinks used for the treatment and prevention of illness and during convalescence. This article describes the use of medical comforts during the Antarctic expeditions of the so called ‘heroic age’. Apart from alcohol, medical comforts included beef extracts, milk extracts and arrowroot. These products were extensively advertised to the medical and nursing professions and to the general public and the Antarctic connection was sometimes used in the advertising. The products were largely devoid of vitamins and their use may have contributed to some of the disease that occurred on these expeditions. Text Antarc* Antarctic PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic The Antarctic Polar Record 49 2 110 117 |
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In the literature of the exploration of the Antarctic in the early 20th century, there are many references to ‘medical comforts’. While ‘medical comforts’ was sometimes used as a euphemism for alcoholic beverages, the term, which originated in the army, covered all foods and drinks used for the treatment and prevention of illness and during convalescence. This article describes the use of medical comforts during the Antarctic expeditions of the so called ‘heroic age’. Apart from alcohol, medical comforts included beef extracts, milk extracts and arrowroot. These products were extensively advertised to the medical and nursing professions and to the general public and the Antarctic connection was sometimes used in the advertising. The products were largely devoid of vitamins and their use may have contributed to some of the disease that occurred on these expeditions. |
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