Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein : with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness / by Robert Thomas (late of Nevis) surgeon : to the work are prefixed, some observations on the proper management of new Negroes, and the general condition of slaves in the sugar colonies : also are annexed, a list of medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explantory table of the weights used by apothecaries.

  • Robert Thomas
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MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: Medical advice to the inhabitants of warm climates, on the domestic treatment of all the diseases incidental therein : with a few useful hints to new settlers, for the preservation of health, and the prevention of sickness / by Robert Thomas (late of Nevis) surgeon : to the work are prefixed, some observations on the proper management of new Negroes, and the general condition of slaves in the sugar colonies : also are annexed, a list of medicines recommended in the treatment of the diseases, and an explantory table of the weights used by apothecaries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of InJlammaLons in general. 2?> purple and livid fpots fcattf red over different parts of the body, and haemorrhages; then our future endeavour muft be to (top the putrid difpofition of the fluids, by prefcrib- ing antifeptics and cordials. Acid fruits may, therefore, now be allowed of; and every thing that is drank may be acidulated with lemon or lime juice. A negus, made of Madeira wine, fliced orange6, and fugar and water, may be given to the patient for common drink. The Peruvian bark may alio be given, with wine, in as large dofes as the ftomach will bear. If it will not retain the powder, then a ftrong decoction of it, with fnake-root, may be fubftituted. For this purpofe, boil two ounces of bark, and half an ounce of Virginia Inake-root in a quart of wa- ter, until the one half is evaporated ; when cool, let it be poured off clear, and a wine glafsful, with the addition of fifteen drops of the elixir of vitriol, be taken every hour* in double the fame quantity of Madeira wine. Small dofes of camphor may aifo be given, and a^l the means and re- medies mentioned in the treatment of Putrid Ferer will now be proper, as the one difcafe is evidently converted into the other. Of Inflammations is general. IN every fpecies of inflammation there is an increnfed action of the heart and arteries, propelling forwards a great- er quantity of blood into the part affected, by which means its fcnlibility and irritability are increafed, its final] veffela diflended beyond iheir natural tone, and the circulation of blood through them rendered more rapid. When an in- mmation is confined to one particular part, it is called topical, or local ; but when t' e whole fyftem is affected by it, the term general inflammation is made nf Inflammations may properly I hleg- monous, and the erysipelatous, 'i hole v ho are of a ltrong, roba't, plethotic habit of body, are m< ack» of the firmer ; whereas thofe of I are moft apt to be affected with the litter. A phlegmonous inflammation is attended with fymptom* of g im- tion, and is leated principally in ami cclluai membrane ; whereas, an e; s inflam- notation is always attended with fyr rritation, and occupies fhe Ikin when feated fuper-ficially, and the mu- cous membrane, when it \-\ fome ink requiring different i therefore put under -ids. Of Phlf Causes.