"Modern" Medicine
Journal 2005 01 21
“Modern” Medicine
Quiet, relatively warm (8 degrees above zero) day at Fort Mandan. The sky is clear and Clark makes some celestial readings to confirm their exact location.
A very human issue crops up and that deals with men who have contracted what we’ve know throughout time as a “social” disease. Clark gives them mercury as a kind of cure-all. It works and we will see mercury used to solve all kinds of physical problems on the journey.
In hindsight, the medical expertise available to the Corps was the best available, but crude by modern standards.
Don’t you think two hundred more years will render many of current medical practices crude? Exploration and improvement must be constant for progress.
“Modern” Medicine
Quiet, relatively warm (8 degrees above zero) day at Fort Mandan. The sky is clear and Clark makes some celestial readings to confirm their exact location.
A very human issue crops up and that deals with men who have contracted what we’ve know throughout time as a “social” disease. Clark gives them mercury as a kind of cure-all. It works and we will see mercury used to solve all kinds of physical problems on the journey.
In hindsight, the medical expertise available to the Corps was the best available, but crude by modern standards.
Don’t you think two hundred more years will render many of current medical practices crude? Exploration and improvement must be constant for progress.
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