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

by William Wright, Benjamin Moseley, Griffith Hughes

Book Overview

This work brings together, in one volume, a number of monographs from the mid to late eighteenth century (the period known as the Age of Reason) on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean. Included here are James Grainger's Essay on the More Common West-Indian Diseases (1764) and book 4 of The Sugar-Cane (1764); book 2 of the Reverend Griffith Hughes's Natural History of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766402353
• ISBN13: 9789766402358
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"