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PRACTICAL RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEGRO SLAVES. 
After some prefatory observations, 
Dr. Walker gives a general account of 
the constitution of women, and the pe- 
culiarities by which it is distinguished 
from that-of males, which leads him to 
the consideration of the menses, chlo- 
Trosis, amenorrhea, menorhagia and fluor 
albus. He then treats of the diseases of 
advanced life, which comprize various 
cutaneous complaints, uterine hemorr- 
hage, scirrhus and cancer, and the dif- 
ferent morbid affections which accom- 
pany or follow the cessation of the 
menses. ‘The diseases which occur dur- 
ing pregnancy, and those which present 
themselves after parturition, form the 
remaining subjects treated of in this vo- 
lume. ‘The former include nausea, 
sickness and loathing of food, heart- 
‘burn, costiveness, urinary complaints, 
edematous enlargements of the lower 
extremities, the cramp, spasmodic affec- 
tions in the stomach and bowels, convul- 
‘sions, hemorrhagy and premature la- 
bour; the latter, after-pains, menorr- 
hagia lochialis, affections of the breasts, 
milk fever, puerperal fever, mania and 
phleematia dolens. The author very 
properly takes much pains to guard 
against the use of stimulants and the 
heating regimen, in the puerperal state, 
‘and in the treatment of hemorrhagies. 
A profuse lochial discharge is often con- 
sidered as requiring the employment of 
‘wine ‘and other cordials, to strengthen 
and comfort the patient; but this prac- 
tice, the author observes, is not only 
* — merely useless, as not at all adapted 
*. TO the inhabitants of the mid-land 
counties of England, this must appear a 
very curious performance; they have 
heard, no doubt, of several publications 
on the management of cattle, and on the 
‘breeding, rearing, and fattening of oxen 
and sheep. This book treats of a diffe- 
went species of live stock, not so well 
known in the markets of this country, 
described by naturalists as “ animal bipes 
“mplume,”? and commonly called man.— 
"The author informs us, that he resided 
Many years upon his own estate, and ma- 
naged his own gangs of slaves ; he may 
‘therefore be supposed to speak with con 
“fidence on different topics, because he 
“speaks from actual experience. His work 
4s divided into two parts: the first of 
“which suggesisrules for the manazement 
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to remove the cause of these syraptoms 5; but 
is highly injurious, as it is calculated to in- 
crease and aggravate the mischief. By in- 
creasing the action of the heart and arteries, 
the circulation is accelerated, and the fow of 
blood from the open mouths of the vessels is 
proportionably increased. One of the first 
means to be employed is to keep the patient 
as cool as possible, and with a view to this, 
to lower the temperature of the air, by which 
she is surrounded. This regulation is found 
useful in other haemorrhages, and is acknow- 
ledged to be necessary on other occasions, 
even when the uterus is the seat of the dis- 
ease: but a prejudice against it, in the pre- 
sent circumstances, has been imbibed, and 
it has been thought necessary to keep a wo- 
man, whilst lyimg-in, particularly warm.— 
But, not to say any thing of the fallacy of 
the reasonings used on this occasion, if there 
were even some risk of future inconve- 
niences, it would be necessary to obviate 
the dangerous symptom now referred to: 
but, by a prudent management, all danger of 
catching cold may be avoided, as constant 
experience proves. So necessary, indeed, is 
an attention to this direction, that it has been 
found that other means, employed with a 
view to check a flooding, have proved ineflec- 
tual, merely because counteracted by an ex- 
cessive degree of heat, or the use of other 
stimuli.” 
In the trearment of fluor albus, we 
observe, that the author does not men- 
tion the use of astringent injections, 
which have frequently an excellent ef- 
fect as a topical tonic; nor does he say 
any thing of his experience of electricity 
in amenorrhea, except to reprehend, 
among medicines which haye been call- 
ed forcing, its improper use. 
Treatment of Negro Slaves. Svo. 
of negroes, and the second includes di- 
rections for their treatment in sickness. 
He is an advocate for the slave trade, as 
might be expected. He says that sla- 
very is only prohibited by philosophy, 
not by theology; and thinks that the ar- 
guments adduced against the existence 
of slavery, would apply with the same 
force to actions that are considered as 
moral, noble, and praise-worthy. Since 
no mortal has yet been found equal to 
so sublime an effort of virtue {we ‘use 
our author's own words), where the in- 
terest was large, and poverty the conse- 
quence, to surrender his right over his 
slaves, and restore them to their liberty, 
he infers that it is a fault of the whole 
human race, not of the individual; and 
he flatters himself and his friends, that 
a “Bid 
