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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    The ufual indulgence which is granted by all mafters to their lying-in women, of not calling upon them to do any kind of work whatever until after the expiration of four weeks, is much to their cre- dit ; and even, if a longer- reft from labour is judged neceffary by the furgeon who attends the eftate, it is in general readily granted., How dif- ferent is the lot of poor labouring women in this part of the world, many of whom I have known to undergo great toil and fatigue a very few days after being delivered, or elfe their children mud have been deprived of that morfel of bread which prolonged their exiftence from one day to another. The many children that die within the courfe of the firft month of their birth, and the very few that are reared, in proportion to the numbers that are born, which renders it neceffary for the proprietor of almoft every fugar eftate whatever, to purchafe every now and then African negroes at a very high price, in order to keep up his proper and original ftrength, fhould prove a ftimulus to all owners of flaves, to give every poffible encouragement to their breeding women to take proper care of their offspring. A fmall pecuniary reward be- ftowed on thofe who rear them to the age of two or three years, with certain exemptions from the daily labour performed by the other fiaves,would, in all probability, be accompanied with the good effefl I allude to. Some additional mark of favour fhewed to thofe negroes who form connexions with one