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Historical Article
Diseases and medical disabilities of enslaved Barbadians, from the seventeenth century to around 1838 part II.
- J S Handler.
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Charlottesville VA 22903, USA. jh3v@cms.mail.virginia.edu
- W Indian Med J. 2009 Jan 1; 58 (1): 334933-49.
AbstractThe disease environment, health problems and causes of mortality of enslaved Barbadians are described. Data are derived mainly from documentary sources; also included are bio-archaeological data from analyses of skeletons recovered from Newton Plantation cemetery. Major topics include infectious diseases transmitted from person to person, as well as those contracted through water soil, and other environmental contaminations, and diseases transmitted by insects, parasites and other animals; nutritional diseases, including protein energy malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies, anaemia, and geophagy or "dirt eating"; dental pathologies, lead poisoning, alcoholism, traumas, and other disorders, including psychogenic death or illness caused by beliefs in witchcraft or sorcery.
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