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Samuel H. Dickson publishes Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, etc.

1852

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A professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dickson examines the relationship between bodies and the environment. He asserts that "the darker races are only healthy under the hot sun of the South." He focuses on differences in skin color, and what he believes are corollary differences in vulnerability to malaria and yellow fever.