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Notes on the West Indies, vol. 2 of 2

Chapter 1: NOTES ON THE WEST INDIES, INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE CREOLES AND SLAVES OF THE Western Colonies, AND THE INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA; INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS UPON THE SEASONING OR YELLOW FEVER OF HOT CLIMATES.
By George Pinckard
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A series of letters records travel and medical practice in Caribbean colonies, combining natural-history anecdotes and social observation with clinical discussion of yellow fever. The author describes river and plantation visits, local customs, wildlife curiosities, and the brutal treatment of enslaved people, while recounting debates among colonial physicians over fever causes and therapies. Episodes cover troop epidemics, funeral rites, and a detailed personal attack of yellow fever with remedies and outcome. Interwoven reflections consider the daily duties of a colonial physician, prophylactic experiments, and the influence of climate and environment on disease.

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Title: Notes on the West Indies, vol. 2 of 2

including observations relative to the Creoles and slaves of the western colonies and the Indian of South America: interspersed with remarks upon the seasoning or yellow fever of hot climates

Author: George Pinckard

Release date: November 24, 2025 [eBook #77323]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816

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NOTES
ON THE
WEST INDIES,
INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO
THE CREOLES AND SLAVES
OF THE
Western Colonies,
AND
THE INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA;
INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS
UPON
THE SEASONING OR YELLOW FEVER
OF HOT CLIMATES.

SECOND EDITION,
With additional Letters from Martinique, Jamaica, and St. Domingo.
BY GEORGE PINCKARD, M. D.
Of the Royal College of Physicians,
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals to His Majesty’s Forces,
Physician to the Bloomsbury Dispensary,
The London Female Penitentiary, &c.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

It is a strange thing, that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seene but sky and sea, men should make diaries; but in land trauaile, wherin so much is to bee obserued, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to bee registered than obseruation.

LORD VERULAM.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER ROW;
AND L. B. SEELEY, FLEET STREET.
1816.

S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London.