Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein : with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness / by Robert Thomas, (late of the island of Nevis) surgeon. To the work are prefixed, some observations on the proper management of new negroes, and the general condition of slaves in the sugar colonies. Also are annexed, a list of the medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explanatory table of the weights and measures used by apothecaries.

  • Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835.
Date:
1790
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Credit: Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein : with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness / by Robert Thomas, (late of the island of Nevis) surgeon. To the work are prefixed, some observations on the proper management of new negroes, and the general condition of slaves in the sugar colonies. Also are annexed, a list of the medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explanatory table of the weights and measures used by apothecaries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out any chimney, but are alfo frequently in fuch bad repair, from their own neglect and inattention, as to admit both rain and wind. Many other evils might be pointed out, fuch as their having im- proper things brought to them by their friends, the chance of their being neglected by being at fuch a diftance from the manager, and the probability of their going abroad fooner than what is proper. Thefe bad confequences are fo very obvious, that I am furprifed the practice of fuffering them to lie-in at their own houfes has ever been adopted. Similar objections may be ftarted againft the lick and indifpofed negroes being fuffered to remain at their houfes inftead of being in the hofpital j for, certainly, when they are difperfed about in the above manner, it is impoffible for one nurfe to attend as conftantly as fome of them may require. I am fully fenfible that moft good and well-inclined negroes do not like, when they are indifpofed, to be kept in the fick houfe, as it is ufually termed, being hurt, I prefume, at being lodged under the fame roof, and perhaps kept in the fame apartment with thofe who are confined for mifconduct and every fpecies of villany. Pregnant women fhould never be kept in the great gang of negroes after they are three or four months gone with child; but ought then to be em- ployed in doing fome flight work, fuch as weeding canes, and picking fmall bundles of grafs; and when they are advanced as far as the feventh or eighth,