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1 Samuel A. Cartwright, Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race 691 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/disphypcnr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL. MAY, 1851. fart first. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. L-REPORT ON THE DISEASES AND PHYSICAL. PECULIARITIES OF THE NEGRO RACE. By SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT, M.D., Chairman of tA CosmiUe qppoised by Medical Asociation of Louisiana to report on the above subject. (ReAl a the Am-9a Metig ft heb Assocille Mash th, 1861.) Gendemen:-On the part of the Committee, consisting of Doctors Copes, Williamson, Browning and myself, to investigate the disfases and physical peculiarities of our negro population, we beg leave TO REPORT - That, although the African race constitutes nearly a moiety of our southern population, it has not been made the subject of much scien- tific investigation, and is almost entirely unnoticed in medical ,books and schools. It is only very lately, that it has, in large masses, dwelt in juxta position with science and mental progress. On the Niger and in the wilds of Africa, it has existed for thousands of years, excluded from the observation of the scientific world. It is only since the revival of learning, that the people of that race have bega introduced on this continent. They are located in those parts of. it, not prolific in books and medical authors. No medical school was ever established near them until a few years ago; hence, their. dis- eases and physical peculiarities are almost *nknown to the learned. The little knowledge that Southern physicians have. acquired, con- R9

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