Illnesses & Injuries

After interacting with the natives, many travelers caught venereal diseases.
Whitehouse, a member of the trip, stepped on a rattlesnake and it bit through his legging, but not his leg.
Lewis was one of the more sickly people on the trip. He caught the common flu, colds and malaria.
Due to the harsh conditions of the Bitteroots and other mountain ranges, many had frostbite not unlike this.
Windsor, a member of the group, fell twenty feet off of a cliff by the Missouri before finally stopping himself. If he had fallen, it would have been to certain death.
Two people were thrown off their horses and both suffered from painful dislocated shoulders.
Though only man, Sergt. Floyd, died of a ruptured appendix, it still left a big impact on the expedition because nobody had every seen anything like it before.
During their expedition, many people, such as Lewis, had dysentery. It caused bloody diarrhea with mucus.








http://www.marriedtothesea.com/032607/dysentery.gif


http://www.ajronline.org/content/vol188/issue5/images/large/06_1180_01.jpeg

http://images.google.com/images?imgsz=l&imgtbs=z&hl=en&tbo=1&um=1&sa=3&q=dislocated+shoulder+diagram&btnG=Search+images

http://mac122.icu.ac.jp/gen-ed/higher-plants-etc-gifs/bugs-gifs/p-5malaria(plasmod)-cycle.JPG

http://gallery.archives.govt.nz/d/1967-4/Venereal+Disease.jpg

http://hqphoto.minghui.org/photo_high/allimages/foot1.jpg

http://www.los-dos.com/images/image/rattlesnake-prairie-coiled.jpg

http://www.travelbyphotos.com/images/cliff.JPG