Lewis & Clark: Doctors in the WildernessFulcrum Pub., 2001 - 228 páginas Bear attacks! Hypothermia! Falling from cliffs! "Lewis and Clark: Doctors in the Wilderness" examines early 19th-century medical standards and techniques, while offering a unique perspective on the expedition that opened the American West. A comparison between past and present wilderness emergencies and treatments is also presented. |
Contenido
Setting the Scene | 1 |
Putting It Together | 17 |
Medicine in 1800 | 38 |
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Términos y frases comunes
American Arikaras attack Baptiste bear beaver became become Benjamin Rush bite bleeding blood boat body Bratton buffalo canoes Captains cause Charbonneau Chief Clark expedition Clatsop clothes Coast cold continued Corps of Discovery Cruzatte cure deer diarrhea died diet doctor Drewyer explore feet fever fish Floyd Fort Clatsop Fort Mandan frostbite grizzly heat Hidatsas horses hunters hunting hypothermia illness Indians infection Jefferson journal journey keelboat killed land Lewis and Clark Lewis thought Lewis wrote lived malaria Mandan village meat medicine Meriwether Lewis miles Mississippi Missouri River mosquitoes mountains never ocean Ordway pain party patients perhaps pirogue portage problem Pryor rattlesnake returned Rockies route Rush's Sacagawea sail salt camp Sergeant shore shot sick Sioux skin smallpox snake snakebites snow supplies sweat tick Tillamook Head took trade treatment trees tribes vaccination venereal disease walk wanted West whiskey winter wounds
Referencias a este libro
Voyage of Rediscovery: Exploring the New West in the Footsteps of Lewis & Clark John Krist Vista previa limitada - 2004 |