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Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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ISBN: 0803255802 9786610465910 1423710193 9781423710196 0803229593 9780803229594 9780803204911 0803204914 9780803255807 6610465916 9780803273498 0803273495 0803224133 9780803224131 0803204906 9780803204904 1280465913 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804-6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition's success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition's ver

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