On the Treatment and Management of the More Common West-India Diseases, 1750-1802

ISBN-13: 9789766401771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 204 str.

J. Edward Hutson; James Grainger; William Wright

Opis

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.