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Demografia , Fertilidade , Mortalidade , Grupos Populacionais , Respiração , Silicose , Brasil/etnologia , Região do Caribe/etnologia , Demografia/história , História do Século XVII , História do Século XVIII , História do Século XIX , Humanos , Mortalidade/etnologia , Mortalidade/história , Grupos Populacionais/educação , Grupos Populacionais/etnologia , Grupos Populacionais/história , Grupos Populacionais/legislação & jurisprudência , Grupos Populacionais/psicologia , Relações Raciais/história , Relações Raciais/legislação & jurisprudência , Relações Raciais/psicologia , Sistema Respiratório , Silicose/etnologia , Silicose/história , Problemas Sociais/economia , Problemas Sociais/etnologia , Problemas Sociais/história , Problemas Sociais/legislação & jurisprudência , Problemas Sociais/psicologiaRESUMO
In the spring of 1766 a black supervisor in Curaçao was the victim of attempted poisoning by a black practitioner or curador, engaged by two persons caught stealing by the supervisor. Data on the case were preserved in a letter from the Curaçao director to the managers of the West-Indian Company in Amsterdam. In retrospect, the symptoms of the intoxication indicate that a similar mixture of toxic plants was used as described in 890 A.D. by the Arabic medical writer Wahshiya in his 'Book of Poisons': Calotropis procera and Pithecellobium unguis cati.
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Intoxicação por Plantas/história , História do Século XVIII , Humanos , Látex/história , Látex/toxicidade , Masculino , Antilhas Holandesas , Plantas Tóxicas/intoxicação , Venenos/históriaRESUMO
In the month of February 1713, Curacaoan militia tried in vain to stop an invasion of French troops under leading of their commander Jacques Cassard. The battle was fought near the strategically situated country house called Malpais. Several surgeons in charge of the Dutch West India Company were called to take care of the sick and wounded French and Curacaoan people. The medicines and other supplies were available from army medicine chests. The content of those chests is described and explained in this article.
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História da Farmácia , Caixas de Remédio/história , Medicina Militar/história , Colonialismo , França , História do Século XVIII , Países Baixos , Antilhas Holandesas , GuerraRESUMO
In 1686 the Zeeland Chamber of the West Indian Company undertook a serious effort to establish a colony on the Wild Coast at the Pomeroon. The Wild Coast, a territory described as stretching from the Amazon to the Orinoco river, was of growing significance for the trade in pharmaceutical and technical products of the Guyana country: dyes, letterwood, balsam of copaiba, tobacco, sugar, vanilla beans and carape oil. The expedition consisted of the ship 'De Vrijheyt' which was dispatched from Flushing with the new commander Jacob de Jongh, his family, some soldiers and the surgeon David van Cassel aboard. The latter could rely on a surgeon chest with 103 medicines. The new Pomeroon colony however quickly collapsed. Mortality due to dysentery and malaria was high and the lack of leadership led to faulty discipline. The list of medicines used to combat diseases is reviewed in this article. Antimony takes an important place in the assortment and theriac was used for its anti-inflammatory activity.