On the treatment and management of the more common West-India diseases (1750-1802) / works by James Grainger, MD, 1764 (with additional notes by William Wright, MD, FRS, 1802), Griffith Hughes, MA, FRS, 1750, Benjamin Moseley, MD, 1789 ; edited and annotated by J. Edward Hutson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169) and index.

An essay on the more common West-India diseases / James Grainger (1764), with additional notes by William Wright (1802) -- The sugar-cane : book IV / James Grainger (1764) -- The natural history of the island of Barbados : book II, of diseases peculiar to this and the neighbouring islands / Griffith Hughes (1750) -- Miscellaneous medical observations / Benjamin Moseley (1789, revised 1800).

"This work brings together, in one volume, a number of monographs from the mid to late eighteenth century (the period known as the Age of Reason) on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean. These monographs have been all but forgotten; however, they are of importance to scholars. Dr. Hutson provides a fully annotated text that explains archaic terminology, makes medical, botanical and Latin terminology accessible to non-specialists in those fields, and provides useful explanations of eighteenth-century medical concepts. This collection has much to offer historians and health-care professionals, as well as general readers with an interest in the West Indies."--BOOK JACKET.

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