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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... be fea fick for a few days ; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable malady but to eat and drink , and to walk the deck B as as much as poffible ; vomits and purgatives occafionally ,
... be fea fick for a few days ; I am forry that I never could learn any cure for that naufeous difagreeable malady but to eat and drink , and to walk the deck B as as much as poffible ; vomits and purgatives occafionally ,
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J. B. Moreton. as much as poffible ; vomits and purgatives occafionally , and properly administered , may be ferviceable . When you get to the warm latitudes and trade winds , which blow from the N. E. and E. N. E. you will feel yourself ...
J. B. Moreton. as much as poffible ; vomits and purgatives occafionally , and properly administered , may be ferviceable . When you get to the warm latitudes and trade winds , which blow from the N. E. and E. N. E. you will feel yourself ...
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... poffible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almoft innumerable diseases . • In wet weather , the air , though cool , is more unhealthy than at other times ; alfo the water , owing to its unsettled muddy ...
... poffible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almoft innumerable diseases . • In wet weather , the air , though cool , is more unhealthy than at other times ; alfo the water , owing to its unsettled muddy ...
الصفحة 24
... poffible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perfpiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet , though you be far from any houfe , take off your shoes and ftockings , wash them and let them dry ...
... poffible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perfpiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet , though you be far from any houfe , take off your shoes and ftockings , wash them and let them dry ...
الصفحة 25
... poffible ; and load not your ftomach with fat or greasy meats , left you be troubled with the cholic or bile ; and be not fond of milk , or any thing that will curdle on your ftomach . Eat no fuppers , and go to bed quite fober every ...
... poffible ; and load not your ftomach with fat or greasy meats , left you be troubled with the cholic or bile ; and be not fond of milk , or any thing that will curdle on your ftomach . Eat no fuppers , and go to bed quite fober every ...
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