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
Date:
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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    mould be opened, either with a lancet, or by the applica- t on of can ft m : aftei this, the wound may be dreffed with dry lint, and a pledget fprcad with yellow bafilicum, or fi me more digeftive ointment, be laid over all. If the ii>fl.n]niation has terminated in a gangrene, or movtiticatii o, tl tn a Ipeedy ftop mud be put to the action erf the dead partg on the living ones. For thi3 purpofe, ■ atioris muft be made; emollient fomentations, viih the addition of camphorat d fpirits of wine, muft be applied, and warflndigeftrvedreffinga be put on ; and thefe be i ce a day. Wine, (pices, and the Peruvian bark, muft likewift internally in large quantities, a view of procuring a fcparation of the parts already deca\ It a febirrm has been the conftquence, then a ufe of mercury and hemloc have been advifed ; but they have, very m produced any good effect. In its incipient ftate, a mercurial [latter may however be applied, or a little weak ointment of tie fame nature may be rubbed in. As foon as the tumour and hardnefe are obfetved to increafe, and are attended with darting \ a;ns, the immediate extirpation with thr knife ftiould be rec< nimended, provided no great ad he (ion to the neighbouring parts has already taken, place. Should the fchirnre have degenerated into a cancer, the patieut nuift then fubmit to his unhappy fate, as no reme- dy has yet been difco*efed which will effect a cure. As a palliative, poultices of caffava root, or powdered hemloc, ma. 1 to the part, and renewed twice a day. The ulcer mufl be kept very t'ean, and a vegetable and milk ditt Le purflied; 'i he following plafter has been recom- mi i e the unfound parts from the found ones, and may be tried: Spread a plafter of diachylon, with gum, upon leather of the fize of an ulcer, and fprfnkle it over with torroA>e rub!imatc, f.nely powdered, which apply to the pan ; let it remain on for tight and forty hours, and then remove it, if it has acled fefficiently ; when taken off, a poultice of bread and milk, with a little olive oil, is then to I e laid Ob, and renewed twice a day, until the difeafed parts aie Aparated. When this 13 effecTied, it is to be »a a common ulcer. A purge or two of calomel is directed to precede the application of the plafter. If ne- ccflary, the bark is likewifc to be given, in orutr to pro- u.oic a proper fuppuration. Of the F.rysipr AS, cr St. Anthohy's Tire. , TI1;S ft* « moft frequently attacks thefacej arm*., iegs, a::d feet. Whenever it appears c%- ternallyj