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By Thomas P. Lowry

One of many maximum demanding situations confronted by way of William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804–6 Corps of Discovery day trip used to be that of scientific emergencies at the path. with no an attending health care professional, even regimen illnesses and accidents can have tragic results for the expedition’s luck and the protection of its participants. of those hazards, the main insidious and probably devastating used to be the sluggish, painful, and mostly deadly ravage of venereal disease. Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the area of nineteenth-century drugs, uncovering the expedition’s very genuine worry of venereal sickness. Lewis and Clark knew they have been not going to avoid their males from forming sexual liaisons at the path, in order that they ready for the implications of encounters with almost certainly contaminated humans, in addition to the implications of preexisting affliction, via stocking themselves with drugs and the most recent medical wisdom from the simplest minds in the USA. Lewis and Clark’s excursion encountered local peoples who skilled venereal affliction because of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian tourists and had their very own tools for curing its sufferers, or not less than for alleviating the ache it inflicted. Lowry’s cautious research of the explorers’ journals sheds new gentle in this ignored element of the excursion, exhibiting intimately how intercourse and venereal sickness affected the lads and their project, and describes how diversified peoples confronted a typical probability with the easiest wisdom and instruments at their disposal.

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In a strange development that suggests the dangers of overspecial- 2. ’’ An 1851 French poem used this engraving to caution readers about lovely women with hidden syphilitic lesions. The professional organization of psychiatrists, the American Psychiatric Association, publishes an 800-page book that lists and describes dozens of psychiatric syndromes. In the 1994 edition, syphilis (or any of its synonyms) is not listed. 6 Today, syphilis can be diagnosed in several ways. The first is by blood test.

The second point, central to our subject, is that 15 percent of the medical shopping list was made up of items for the treatment of gonorrhea or syphilis. Two items were earmarked for gonorrhea: sugar of lead was mixed with water and injected up the urethra with a penis syringe; copaiba was given orally. The next sixty years seem to have brought few changes in the treatment of gonorrhea. The 1864 edition of F. J. Bumstead’s text Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Disease, widely used by Union surgeons, recommended many types of urethral irrigations for gonorrhea, including this one: ‘‘Rx liq.

Benedetto, another Venetian doctor, described a victim’s entire body as ‘‘so repulsive to look at’’ that it was worse than the most disfiguring leprosy. 3 No one wished to claim the new child. The French called it the Spanish disease, or the Neapolitan sickness. The English at Bristol called it the Bordeaux disease, while the Danish thought ‘‘French scabies’’ seemed proper. In the first decades after its appearance, syphilis was endowed with a virulence hard to imagine today. The genitals, both male and female, crumbled away in an agony of pain.

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