On The Treatment And Management Of The More Common West-India Diseases 1750 -1802 UWI Press

Description

This work bring together in one volume a number of late-eighteenth-century monographs (the period known as the Age of Reason) on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in African and creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean. These works have been almost forgotten, but they are of importance to many scholars, and Hutson provides a fully annotated text which explains archaic terminology, makes medical, botanical and Latin terminology accessible to non-specialists in those fields, and provides useful explanations of the eighteenth-century medical concepts.

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J. Edward Hutson is a retired medical practitioner, and member of the editorial board of Family Health magazine, Edmonton, Canada. He has also written numerous articles for medical journals.