April 8, 2005
'Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition'
Thomas P. Lowry has a blunt way with book titles. His latest, Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (University of Nebraska Press), adorns a study that is direct and brief, with one central message: "Sex is the long-ignored theme of Lewis and Clark and their immortal journey. Sex and venereal disease."
While comments about both "run rampant" in the expedition's journals, historians have been coy, says the author, a retired psychiatrist and former associate clinical
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