1800-1860: Science and Medicine
1800-1860: Chapter Ten: Science and Medicine
by JAMES N. LEIKER
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY 318
OVERVIEW 321
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
Anthropology and Ethnology 322
Linguistic Barriers 324
Intermixing 324
Disease and Westward Expansion 325
Cholera in the West 326
Frontier Healing 328
Indian Treatment of Snakebite 329
Geology and Geography 330
First View of the Rockies 330
Military Explorations 332
HEADLINE MAKERS
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 335
PUBLICATIONS 338
Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.
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