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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    do render the bile pedant, both in quantity anTtofisy’the paflport to almoft all the Fevers in the Weft-Indies» for it may well l p doubted whether ever the blood is the primary feat of a Fever, unlefs in new co- to the torid zone. ' 1 of courfe the impropriety of frequent bleedings, as always praftited by the Frenc , T/no often bv us, mull be glaring; ana the necefiity of carrying off the peccant, matter by vomit and (tool no lets apparent. Fevers in the Weft-Indies feldom put on the appearance of inflammation beyond the firft twenty-four hours; after that they be- „nmP nutrid, or malignant, or nervous. In the firft ftage of the diieafe, blood may be let, but it fhould be in a imall quan- ,y When the bilious matter has once entered the blood, -hi* tjM ^.“^'“r'and acid purges become then lets ufeful, and the morbid matter muft be thrown out on Ae fkin, by means of wild fage-tea,.1 ton (Ceiba) tea, avocato pear (Laurus) te^. 3