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and Future Web
MEDLINEplus
Gets Upgrade
IGM
to be Retired
Human
Genome Mapped
Turning
the Pages
How
Will Technology Shape the Future of Health Care?
Do
the Dead Tell Tales After All?
Profiles
in Science
Public
Libraries and Consumer Health
RML
Contracts Announced
Rep.
Christian-Christsensen Speaks at NLM
Native
American Youth Visit NLM
New
Exhibit's Brewing at HMD
Pats
on the Back
EP
Division Announces Appointments
NLM
Pioneer Dave McCarn Dies
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New Exhibit's Brewing at HMD
"Tempest in a Teapot" Traces Role of Tea in American
History
Created by Suzanne White Junod, PhD, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration historian, "Tempest in a Teapot" is a small but
fascinating exhibit displayed in the cases outside the History of
Medicine Division until November 1st.
"Tempest in a Teapot" explores the cultural, scientific and
regulatory significance of tea in American history. One case is
subtitled "Tea and Health," the other, "Tea and Politics." "Tea and
Politics" portrays the regulatory status of tea in the late 19th
century, when the Tea Importation Act, prohibiting the importation
of substandard tea was passed, through the late 20th century, in
which teas marketed as dietary supplements have flooded the consumer
market boasting such therapeutic additions as Echinacea, St. John's
Wort and B vitamins. "Tea and Health" uses the collection of the
History of Medicine Division to portray the scientific disputations
on the value of tea in the diet from the 19th century epidemics to
the 20th century's discovery of the antioxidant properties of green
tea. The exhibit displays images and artifacts from the Tea Craze of
the late 19th century, as well as artifacts illustrating green tea's
cultural resurgence in the late 20th century, using products as
far-ranging as tea perfume, tea bags for the bath, and even "Tea
Time Barbie."
 Politics, pop culture,
prohibition: "Tempest in a Teapot" has it all.
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