An essay on the more common West-India diseases; and the remedies which that country itself produces : To which are added, some hints on the management, &c. of negroes / By a physician in the West-Indies.

  • Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.
Date:
1764
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Credit: An essay on the more common West-India diseases; and the remedies which that country itself produces : To which are added, some hints on the management, &c. of negroes / By a physician in the West-Indies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be inveftigated by future inquiry. Such dif- coveries, however, are no, ,o be cpete from the gentlemen of the faculty. Tnei time muft neceffarily be devoted to th calls of their profeffion 5 as few of mde pendent fortunes go to praftife m the w e Indies; and yet phyficians are toe on! perfons who are qualified for this mome. tons employment. It would therefore pe haps, well become the wifdorn of the 1 gifiature, to enable thofe gentlemen to d vote a part of their time to thefe Audit as whatever means tend to alleviate t maladies of human nature, cannot be 1 commonly known, or rendered too num ous. Premiums are daily beftowe improvements in agriculture, &c. but rewards have ever been offered for < coveries in the Materia Medica; as every art was more necefiary than pm and every objeft more confiderable 1 the health of-the community. And yet: difcoveries would not, like many otl be confined in their influence to one ns only. The world would reap the ad tage of them, for the world is inter in the improvement of medicine ; anc palms which might be gathered by Bi