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Acknowledgment: the author would like to thank Edward W. Hook, M.D., for his encouragement to publish this Medical Center Hour presentation and for his assistance with manuscript editing. Thanks are extended also to Joyce S. Garver for manuscript preparation, and especially to my wife, Charlene, for editing and encouraging me in this endeavor.
1. Donald Jackson, ed., Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with Related Documents, 1783–1854 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), 1:57–60. [BACK]
2. E. G. Chuinard, Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1979), 415. [BACK]
3. Ibid., 67–80. [BACK]
4. J. T. Flexner, Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 1992), 9. [BACK]
5. Chuinard, Only One Man Died, 108. [BACK]
6. Ibid., 415. [BACK]
7. J. G. O'Shea, “Two Minutes with Venus, Two years with Mercury: Mercury as an Antisyphilitic Hemotherapeutic Agent,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 83 (June 1990): 392–395. [BACK]
8. Jackson, Letters, 1:16–19. [BACK]
9. D. F. Hawke, Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971), 392. [BACK]
10. Flexner, Doctors on Horseback, 113. [BACK]
11. The quotation is from Jackson, Letters, 1:54. [BACK]
12. Ibid., 1:8–9. [BACK]
13. James P. Ronda, Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984), 106. [BACK]
14. Paul Russell Cutright, Lewis and Clark, Pioneering Naturalists (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), 63. [BACK]
15. Gary E. Moulton, ed., The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983–99), 2:495. Any parenthetical page citations in chapter 3 text and notes are to this edition. [BACK]
16. Chuinard, Only One Man Died, 230–238. [BACK]
17. Ronda, Among the Indians, 107. [BACK]
18. Jackson, Letters, 1:64. [BACK]
19. Ibid., 1:130. [BACK]
20. Ibid., 2:639. [BACK]
21. Chuinard, Only One Man Died, 320. [BACK]
22. Jackson, Letters, 1:324. [BACK]