Explorations: Iron Horse: Tea and infant dysentery

Duration: 2 mins 32 secs
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Description: Background to Channel 4 Series 'The Day the World Took Off', the millenial series shown in 2000. With kind permission of Windfall films. How could tea help infants who were not themselves drinking tea to avoid water borne diseases? Alan Macfarlane explains that without tea, the industrial revolution might have been impossible.
 
Created: 2018-03-07 17:04
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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