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 Emeritus, founding director of the George Alleyne Chronic
Disease Research Centre, and founding dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University
of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. He is the author of numerous medical
and non-medical publications.