On the treatment and management of the more common West-India diseases (1750-1802)

Contents......Page 7 Foreword......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Introduction......Page 15 Notes on Editorial Procedures......Page 24 An Essay on the More Common West-India Diseases......Page 26 Advertisement......Page 28 Dedication......Page 30 Preface......Page 31 An Essay on the Management and Diseases of Negroes......Page 34 An Essay on the Management and Diseases of Negroes, Part II......Page 38 An Essay on the Management and Diseases of Negroes, Part III......Page 66 An Essay on the Management and Diseases of Negroes, Part IV......Page 76 Linnæan Index......Page 80 The Sugar-Cane......Page 82 The Natural History of the Island of Barbados......Page 110 Miscellaneous Medical Observations......Page 126 Notes......Page 154 References......Page 193 Index......Page 195 Brings together a number of monographs from the mid to late eighteenth century on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean.