J. Edward Hutson is a retired medical practitioner. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and has written several articles for medical journals. He retired from family practice in 1996 and pursued his interest in Barbadian history, editing and annotating Richard Ligon’s 1657 True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes, Sir Henry Colt’s manuscript Voyage to the Islands of Barbados and St Christopher and a collection of eyewitness observations on the civil war in Barbados. More recently he edited a collection of historical medical monographs, On the Treatment and Management of the More Common West-India Diseases, 1750–1802.
Henry Fraser is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Dean of the School of Clinical Medicine and Research, and Director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
