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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    It is always attended with great danger, and not uncommonly terminates in a fuppuration or morti- fkation, when the fymptoms have run high, and the proper means for abating the inflammation have been wholly neglected at an early period. The fame mode of treatment is here to be pur- fued as in other internal inflammations, fuch as drawing off a quantity of blood, proportionable to the ftrength of the patient and the feverity of the fymptoms, keeping cloths dipped in a warm de- coction of emollient herbs conftantly applied to the region of the belly, throwing up emollient lax- ative clyfters by way of internal fomentations, frequently giving fmall dofes of nitre joined with diaphoretics, as directed in the General Treatment of Fevers, and keeping the woman confined to diluting liquors, and in a ftate of perfect quiet and reft. If the inflammation fhews a difpofiiion to proceed either to a fuppuration or mortification, the Peruvian bark mufl be given in large and fre- quent repeated dofes. Too much caution cannot be obferved in guard- ing againft all expofures to cold after delivery, as many women contract diforders which are feverely felt during the whole future period of their life, by a neglect of this material point. When any purg- ing arifes, the means recommended under the head of a Diarrhoea mult be adopted.