Author: Dazille, Jean-Barthélemy (1738-1812). Auteur du texte (Creator); BOUCHARD-GUIARD—PIERRET-THERRE, dynastie de médecins et chirurgiens militaires et civils de la fin du XVIIIème à la fin du XXème., provenance
Title: Observations Sur Les Maladies Des Nègres : Leurs Causes, Leurs Traitemens, Et Les Moyens de Les Prévenir. Seconde Edition, Considérablement Augmentée. [Observations on the Diseases of Negroes: Their Causes, Their Treatments, and the Means of Preventing Them]
Description: Chez l'auteur .. et Croullebois .. A Paris, 1792. 2 volumes in 8°. 12 x 19cm.Pleine reliure de l'époque en basane. Dos à nerfs, orné de fers et de fleurons dorés. Le dos du premier tome légèrement insolé). Défauts à la coiffe du tome 2. Tome I : 14 pages (Avertissement et Lettre de M. Fournier de Varennes, Commandant à MM. les Administrateurs généraux de Saint Domingue), 4 p. n. ch. pour la Table des matières et 460 pages. Mors un peu faible. Tome II : 478 pages et 4 pp. n. ch. (Approbation et privilège). Réédition de cet ouvrage paru, pour la première fois. en 1776... (Jean Barthélemy DAZILLE, Médecin du Roi à Saint Domingue, Pensionnaire de Sa Majesté, Ancien chirurgien - Major des Troupes de Cayenne, des Hôpitaux de l'Isle de France, etc ..Peu fréquent. Provenance : Collection BOUCHARD-GUIARD—PIERRET-THERRE, dynastie de médecins et chirurgiens militaires et civils de la fin du XVIIIème à la fin du XXè..OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1503228295..The book is organized topically by disease and provides concrete recommendations, including specific recipes for remedies. In general, Dazille counseled better food, especially more varied diets; better hospitals, equipped with proper beds and a good deal of clean bedding; and better clothing, designed to protect from the massive temperature swings that could be common in certain locales. The text shows how ideas of racial difference were hardening in the late 18th century but were not yet set. Within the chapters, Dazille shifted readily from general discussions of diseases and bodies to the particular conditions of slavery (which is to say, not biological difference) that resulted in the poor health of enslaved Africans. But at the same time, he did make references to Africans’ “libertinage” (“loose morals”), which could potentially make them ill because they would “exhaust” themselves in seeking out their romantic partners, even across long distances, after a grueling day of work.... This not only speaks to Dazille’s assumption that Africans had certain fixed characteristics but also his refusal to see them as fully human; as much recent scholarship on slavery has shown, it was precisely these intimate relationships that enabled the enslaved to hold on to their humanity, to forge affective ties that mattered enormously to them.[13] But it is not just recent scholarship—many in the 18th century considered a highly affective family life to be one of life’s greatest consolations and indeed a fundamental driving force uniting human society. That Dazille did not consider the emotional needs of the enslaved when writing of their intimate relationships only underscores the limits of his own empathy. .

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