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W. Scott (William Scott) Tebb
1862–1917
A physician and public analyst writing at the turn of the 20th century, he explored public health, everyday stimulants, and vaccination in books that reflect the fierce medical debates of his time. His work is now mainly read as a window into how health, science, and society were argued over in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
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Tea and the effects of tea drinking
by W. Scott (William Scott) Tebb
About the author
Born in 1862 and identified in library and archive records as William Scott Tebb, he was a British medical writer whose books include Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking, A Century of Vaccination and What It Teaches, and The Metropolitan Water Supply.
Title pages and archival copies describe him as M.A., M.D. (Cantab.), D.P.H., a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, and Public Analyst to the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark. Those roles help explain the range of his writing, which moves from the chemistry and health effects of tea to questions of sanitation and disease.
Tebb died in 1917. Modern readers are most likely to encounter his work through digitized historical editions, where it offers a vivid look at public-health arguments from more than a century ago, especially on issues that were already controversial in his own lifetime.