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Lewis & Clark : doctors in the wilderness / Bruce C. Paton.

Title: Lewis & Clark : doctors in the wilderness / Bruce C. Paton.
Author: Paton, Bruce C.
Publication: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2001.

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Description

ix, 228 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

Examines early nineteenth-century medical standards and techniques and discusses how they were applied to Lewis and Clark's 1803 expedition to open the American West.

Alternative Title

Lewis and Clark

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-215) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Setting the scene -- Putting it together -- Medicine in 1800 -- Pittsburgh to the Mandans : August 1803 -- November 1804 -- Winter with the Mandans : November 1804 -- March 1805 -- All go cheerfully on : April -- November 1805 -- Rain, fleas, and thoughts of home : December 1805 -- March 1806 -- Back through the mountains : March -- September 1806 -- Afterthoughts : doctors in today's wilderness -- Appendix A : Members of the Corps of Discovery -- Appendix B : What happened afterward? -- Bibliography.

ISBN

1555910556 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001002334

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library