Who medical supplies did Lewis and Clark bring with them?

Medical Supplies

- 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._