An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces : to which are added some hints on the management, &c. of Negroes / by James Grainger, M.D.

  • Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.
Date:
1802
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Credit: An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces : to which are added some hints on the management, &c. of Negroes / by James Grainger, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they fhould not be allowed to be carried to the field with their mothers, but fliould be intriifted to the management of fome ancient and fenfible Negrefs, who will take care to have them proper- ]y fed. At eight years of age, they are made to pick grafs, carry a fmall baflcet with dung, and under the diredtion of thofe of riper years, to pull up ' weeds in the cane-piece. Of Chigres or Chigoes. (i o) It is faid there are two kinds of chigres, one common, and the other poifonous. ^y opinion is, that none ever are troubled with the latter in- fedl, but fuch as are in a bad habit of body. All the young, as well as the new Negroes, fliould have their feet and hands examined re- (lo) The Chigre Pulex Minimus of Linnxus, is a fpecies of flea, bred in alhes, or in places where quick-lime has been laid. It burrows under the Ikin, and occafions an into- lerable itching, and fmall hard tumour on the part. Every perfon, of whatever habit, is liable to have chigres. In a day or two the chigre becomes as large as duck-fhot, and of a yellowifli white colour. It is the abdomen of the in- fe£l that is diftended with the ova, which, if fuffered to burft of itfelf, the young ones infeft the neighbouring parts, and the dead infe6t occafions a troublefome fore, B3