Reviews for Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

The average rating for Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-05 00:00:00 David Shea this book is short and sweet--delivering exactly what the title describes. i enjoyed the writing style as well, making what could be a dry, boring subject interesting and intriguing. highly recommended to anyone, really, because this book is so damn good!!

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-21 00:00:00 Dean Lakovic Venereal disease is rampant, normal and expected in the expedition. The supplies list includes unguents, instruments and of course mercurial solutions to treat the disease. Lowry covers a lot of ground and suggests that syphilis and gonorrhea are new world diseases that infected Europe with deadly, virulent strains three years after Columbus's first voyage - in 1495. Also of interest are the excerpts from Clark's and others journals on sexuality and sexual behavior of the men of the expedition and also the Native Peoples they met along their route. The expedition traveled along the Missouri in South Dakota. In the 1980s Larry Zimmerman and John Gregg documented and reburied the skeletal remains of a Native group that lived in the area before the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The osteopathology was published to the web in the 1990s but seems to have been lost to time.