Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him].

Date:
1778
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Credit: Letters and essays on the small-pox and inoculation, the measles, the dry belly-ache, the yellow, and remitting, and intermitting fevers of the West Indies. To which are added, thoughts on the hydrocephalus internus, and observations on hydatides in the heads of cattle / By different practioners [John Quier, Thomas Fraser, John Hume, George Monro, Ambrose Dawson, Dr. Dowdeswell. Addressed (except Hume's essay) to D. Monro and editied by him]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taceous powder, equal in weight to the calomel, as recommended by Baron Dimfdale. The purgative that I generally ufed, after the mer^ curial powder, was jalap mixed with an equal quantity of cream of tartar. Five or fix grains of calomel is a fuf- ficient dofe for the ftrongeft grown negroe ; and fo fmall a quantity, but once repeated, many times brought on a copious fpitting. The greateft fault committed by inoculators in this country, I apprehend, was the not proportioning the length of the time of preparation, and the number of the dofes of the preparative medi¬ cines, to the conftitutions of their pa^ tients. Mercury has in this climate a prodigious propepfity to falivate. The greater number of negroes hav'e likewife been frequently taking mer¬ curials for venereal complaints: many of them have their fluids fo impreg¬ nated wirh them, that a very fmall quantity