Category: History: U.S.: L&C

Copyright/published Year: 2002 by Far Country

ISBN: 1-56037-226-5

Binding: Cloth

Description: By David J. Peck, D.O.
foreword by Moira Ambrose.

An urgent-care physician with a passion for the Lewis and Clark ì Expedition describes its medical aspects. The two captains had to ì act as doctors for their own men, Sacagawea and baby Pomp, and ì also treated many Indian nations met along the way. But they used ì the primitive medicines and theories of 1803, which often called ì for doing just what shouldn't be done, or what had no effect. Dr. ì Peck describes the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and ì back, emphasizing the illnesses and accidents, and how the ì captains dealt with frostbite, severe cuts, appendicitis, ì venereal disease, pelvic inflammatory disease, mental illness, ì parasites, skin infections, snowblindness, gunshot wound, ì dislocated joints, muscle spasm, and more. Anecdotes from his own ì practice enrich the information he gathered from current medical ì publications. He also presents medical and anecdotal evidence ì supporting the theory that Meriwether Lewis died from suicide ì rather than murder.

Index. 360 pages, hardback, 6"x9".

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