West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 21
... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass .
... he is looked upon as an Esculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grass .
الصفحة 22
... not only on Europeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I became the ghost of what I had been . To - day , as it were , I was healthy and ...
... not only on Europeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I became the ghost of what I had been . To - day , as it were , I was healthy and ...
الصفحة 23
... also the water , owing to its unsettled muddy state ; for all the filth and dirt which is dispersed over the country is washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only ...
... also the water , owing to its unsettled muddy state ; for all the filth and dirt which is dispersed over the country is washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only ...
الصفحة 27
... hardly evers a hot climate is best for those who are of a consumptive nature ; mercurial purgatives are of essential service , nor should the patient by any means be diffuaded from caking them , it is also necessary to get blooded ...
... hardly evers a hot climate is best for those who are of a consumptive nature ; mercurial purgatives are of essential service , nor should the patient by any means be diffuaded from caking them , it is also necessary to get blooded ...
الصفحة 32
Their puny offspring share disease also , And the infection catch in embryo ! Thus far I have said of diseases peculiar to the West Indies , and of physic , though I know no . thing of the latter but what I experienced from observations ...
Their puny offspring share disease also , And the infection catch in embryo ! Thus far I have said of diseases peculiar to the West Indies , and of physic , though I know no . thing of the latter but what I experienced from observations ...
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