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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    ( To thefe remarks, I beg leave to add a few ob- fervations on the proper management of new negroes, and the treatment of flaves in general. The planter who buys full-grown negroes, will feldom, if ever, be repaid by their labour for his original purchafe-money, as they never can be made fo tradable and ufeful on a fugar eftate as thofe of a younger age ; and they, moreover, for ever bear in their minds a lafting remembrance of their country, friends, and families, from whom they have been feparated, which notiunfrequently brings on a defpondency and pining away that is apt to terminate in their total lofs. From ten to fifteen years is the belt age to purchafe flaves, as their affe&ions are then eafily weaned from all retrofpe£live fcenes, and by meeting with an indulgent and tender mafter, they look up to him as their guardian and proteclor upon all occafions. In inuring new negroes to the labour of a fugar plantation, they mould at firft be only employed in doing that work which is light and eafy. In the rainy feafon of the year, they fhould be warmly clothed, and expofed as little as polfible to the inclemency of the weather ; and, I hardly need add, that at all times they Ihould be comfortably lodgedj, well fed, and in every other elfential point, moft niinutely attended to, New