A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and New Metlakahtla, Alaska, U.S.A., 1859-1916. A convert of the celebrated missionary William Duncan [1832-1918], friend of Henry Wellcome, Clah saved Duncan's life from disaffected tribesmen. Ff.lv and 2r of vol.1 of Clah's voluminous journal record the murder of his father and the smallpox visitation of 1836. Intended as a history of the Tsimshian people, the journal includes material on Clah's life and work, on epidemics, on residual potlatch ceremonies, and on Indian relations with the white man. Clah transferred to New Metlakahtla (Alaska) with Duncan in 1887, a resettle- ment of his people supported generously by Henry Wellcome. 10. Thomas Dancer [c.1750-1811]. The medical assistant; of Jamaica practice of physic: designed chiefly for the use of families and planta- tions. Kingston, Jamaica: A. Aikman. 1801. With its general introductory essay on medicine and its descriptions and treat- ments of the diseases common to Jamaica and the West Indies among both planters and slaves, this work by the irascible Island Botanist is a remarkably complete compendium of contemporary tropical practice. The subsequent editions of 1809 and 1819 aimed to keep the material up to date. All editions include the 'List of medicines requisite for a family, or for a plantation containing one hundred negroes' (pp. 348-9), and the list of 'Jamaica simples; or, country remedies'. Background: The wood-engraving from W. Piso and G. Markgraf, Historia naturalis Brasiliae, Amsterdam, 1648, p.50, illustrates a bullock-powered mill. A slave treadmill, or more benevolently, a watermill, were the alternatives. The sugarmill and the slavery it demanded represent the tragic background to the exploitation of the Caribbean and the surrounding tropical mainlands. Slavery meant rapid development of habitat inimical to the European. It also meant dire and pitiable conditions for the slave - not to be rectified until the 19th century.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
