COMD 4490 Lecture : Lecture 7 Otoscopy
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*exam is on thursday october 16 at 10:30 (usual class time) large scantron is needed. Has 5 uses: medicine, spices, sweetener, preservative, and used for sculpting. Was a wonder drug in the 10th-18th century, used in every medicine especially for the black plague. 70% of enslaved people were brought to the new world to produce sugar: others worked with coffee, cotton, in silver and gold mines, and tobacco. European colonization, 15th to 19th century, primarily involved the colonization of the americas. Shippers include: the portuguese, the brazilians, the english, the french, the spaniards, the dutch, and north. People have used the sap and juice from plants to obtain sweetness: wild date palm (phoenix sylvestris) Today, only 2 plant sources provide our natural sweeteners. Sugar cane 1st used in polynesia and spread to india, then the philippines and indonesia, and later. New guinea is the home of the cultivated form of sugar cane.
