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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    A N essay ON THE MANAGEMENT and DISEASES O F NEGROES. PART the Fourth. But it is not enough to take care of Negroes when they are tick, they fhould alfo be well cloathed and regularly fed. The negledting either of thefe important precepts is not only highly inhuman, but is the worft fpecies of prodigality. One Negroe, faved in this manner, more than pays the additional expences which owners of Haves by this means incur. But fuppofing it did not, it ought ferioufly to be confidered by all mailers, that they mu ft an-