Who medical supplies did Lewis and Clark bring with them?
- Calomel: Mercury Chloride was used as a treatment for fever and infections, and as a laxative.
- Emetic Tarta: a mixture of antimony tartrate and potassium tartrate, used to induce vomiting and as an expectorant.
- Laudanum: a powdered opium used to relieve pain, treat diarrhea and dysentery, and cause sleep.
- Magnesia: used to treat acid indigestion and constipation
- Oil of Vitriol (Sulfuric Acid): used as a disinfectant and to treat diarrhea.
- Sweet Spirit of Nitre (Ethyl Nitrite): used to treat various conditions including fainting spells, nausea, and headaches
- Tartar Emetic: a mixture of antimony and potassium, used as an expectorant and irritant to promote vomiting to clear chest congestion.
- Turpentine: used to disinfect, as a counterirritant, and as an expectorant
- Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare): a plant used to cure snakebites, sores and wounds.
- Ipecac: used to induce vomiting
- Peruvian Bark (Cinchona bark): used to treat malaria, dysentery, and fever.
- Jesuit's Bark: used to treat fever and malaria.
- Opium.
- Camphor (Cinnamomum camphora): applied to the skin as a rubifacient and counterirritant.
- Blue Mass (Blue Cohoosh): a mercury laxative.
- Jalap: a laxative.
- Rhubarb: a laxative.
- Senna: a laxative.
- Manna: a mild laxative.
- Epsom Salt (Magnesium sulfate): a laxative.
- Glauber's Salt: used as a laxative and cathartic.
- Aloes: a laxative.
_In addition to these medical supplies, Lewis and Clark also carried surgical instruments and various other medical tools and supplies._