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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    ESSAY O N T H E MANAGEMENT and DISEASES O F NEGROES. PART the First. » Of the Choice of NEGROES. H E different nations of Guinea are I not only very different in their man- ners and paffions, but from the con- ftitution of their native climates are fubjedt to a variety of different diforders. Thus the Cormantees, who are a brave and free people at home., cannot fubmit to the un¬ avoidable feverities of bondage ; while the Minnahs are too apt to deftroy themfelves upon the leaft, and even without any pro¬ vocation. Again, the Negroes from Mun- dingo have worms, almoft all of them; while thofe from Congo are very liable to drop- fical