Revisiting Lisa Smith's Coffee: A Remedy Against the Plague

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7 mai 2020

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Editor's note: Today, we revisit a post by our editor Lisa Smith on the use of coffee as an eighteenth century cure-all against smallpox and the plague. The botanist Richard Bradley claimed that coffee would be effective in treating such diseases because it 'lifted the spirit'. I certainly find that caffeine lifts my spirits, even if temporarily, but we know that high spirits are unfortunately no protection against COVID-19 and other viruses. Still, there is no harm in taking a break - caffe...

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