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 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 medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explantory table of the weights used by apothecaries.

  • Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835.
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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 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 medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explantory table of the weights used by apothecaries. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Nassau, New-Providence : Printed and sold by John Wells, MDCCXCIV [1794]

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4, 188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

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Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 449

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First published in London in 1790
Includes an index
Signatures: [A]² B-R⁶
Not in ESTC
NLM copy: sigs. M and P incorrectly imposed; trimmed, affecting some direction-lines.
NLM copy bound with: Pope, Alexander. The works of Alexander Pope. Vol. III Part I., containing the Dunciad. London, 1742. -- The devil upon crutches in England / by a gentleman of Oxford. Philadelphia : Printed by William Evitt, 1772.

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