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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BOOKS Sunday,February 3, 2002 1 ‘sists Paton Has His Finger on Pulse inmani Of Lewis & Clark Expedition Here are the week’s Book Sense best sellers, based on sales from more than 350 independent bookstores. Compiled by Melinda Miller PARK CITY — Anyone hoping to ‘Doctors in the Wilderness’ thoroughly examines 19th century medicine Millionaires. Brad Meltzer ) 5. The Cat Who WentUpthe Creek. Se vw Lewis & Clark for venereal diseases,” Paton writes, “was mercury used either as a salve. ..orgivenasapill... Doctors in the Wilderness Treatment continued until excessive salivation, eg an early sign of mercury By Bruce C. Paton; Fulcrum Pubiishing; $18.95 = Fire. W.E.B. pchcainoeagp mame Ey, 9.10.Under ThePassion ofArtemesia. Paton gives away his own class REGIONAL INTEREST BOOK REVIEWS BY MARTIN NAPARSTECK SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE One day in November 1803, Meriwether Lewis found that William Hardcover Nonfiction 1. John Adams. David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) 2. Bias. Bernard Goldberg (Regnery) 3, Theodore Rex. Edmund Morris (Ran- Clark was “very unwell,” according to the journal Lewis kept of their trip. com lo Moved My Cheese? 5spencer Johnson (Putnam) 5, The Prayer of Jabez. Bruce Wilkin‘son (Multnomah) Bruce C. Paton, aretired cardiac surgeon and expert in wilderness medicine,finds Lewis’failure to give more information on Clark's condition “both intriguing and exasperating.” 6. Sacred Contracts. Caroline Myss ) 7. Get With the Program. Bob Greene (Simon Schuster) : re ers Onan ig, He adds “No further mention was nery) made of cultures, and the nature of medicine then and now. Paton notes that there was little evidence of mental illness among Indians during the periods of earliest contact with whites:“The rarity ofmental disturbances among the Indians was ascribed to the closeness offamily life andthe support and comfort available within the structure of their society.” that jume 3. The Amazing Adventures ofKavaHae & Clay, Michael Chabon(Picador) "3 ‘Summer. Barbara King{solver(HarperPerennial) 5. The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) | @. The Blind Assassin. Margaret At- medical |_ 7. The Fellowshipof the Ring. J.R.R. | Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) | &. The Hobbit. RR Tolkien (Hough‘ton Mifflin) 9. Shopgirl. Steve Martin (Hyperion/ ‘Theia) True ofthe Kelly Gang. k practices had acquired the paucity of de- through natural selection. Among the was a venereal disease, but Paton believes it could have been “peritonitis of the lower part of her abdomen.” Partly, he bases that conclusion on the began by Benjamin Rush, a doctor who was one of the leading medical figures in the United States. It is revealing because ittells us a great deal about social classes,inter- action amongand differences between. Aiden GrayofMidvale, co-author with Margaret Blair Young of the Standing on the Promises series, will represent Utah at the unveiling of an exhibit of the Mark E.Mitchell Collection of African-American History at the new National Museum of AfricanAmerican History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The program is in celebration of Black History Month. Gray presides over the Genesis Group,an organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to support members of African descent. Late Nights at Weller's: Sam Weller’s Zion Books is extending its hours during the Olympic schedule, and inviting Utah authors to come to the store for informal visits with readers. Thestore, on Main Street opposite the entrance to the Gallivan Center, will be open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Mondaysthrough Saturdays, and from noonto 8 p.m. on Sundays. Among the authors appearing there are Utah Book Award winners Curtis and Diane Oberhansly, Dean Martin’s son Ricci Martin, ski gurus Alan Engen, Greg Thompson and Lloyd Johnson, radio essayist Scott Carrier, Gayen Wharton, Teresa Jor- nomadic tribes, stronglimbs andthe ability to keep up with the group were essential. The weak and unfit died.” fact that there is no evidence that her husband, Charbonneau, contacted a venereal disease from her. Lewis wasaccidentally shot in the buttocks by a memberof the Corps who had bad eyesight and whoevi- Layton, historians Eileen Hallet Stone and Will Bagley, Edward Kallbacks, trayel writer John Keahey,Bill Kerig, been written about venereal diseases among members ofthe expedition and Indians they encountered. Paton does not introduce any new thoughts in this area, but does note,ashavemany other writers, thatthepracticeofsome Indian tribes of either allowing women to havesexual relations with covered slowly butfully. Nodoubt, with the bicentennial of the beginning of the Lewis and Clark trip little more than a year away, many more books in this already crowded field can be expected. Considering that manywill seek a niche to explore that others have ignored, few are as likely to be as engrossing as Paton’s. bookAngle of Repose, about Lyman Ward, a retired history professor and Western writer who chronicles his A great deal has dently mistook him for an elk; he re- 19th century,coupled with specifics of advice given to Lewis before thetrip ofFacts four times through a gantlet of the suggested that Sacagawea’s illness “Over their good health revealing summation of the medical crises and day-to-day medical concerns ofthose onthetrip. The credibility comes largely from the detail Paton provides about accepted medical practices of the early Ross King of. desertion. He wassentenced “to run the ans vides a credible and Day. David SeAnthony Moon. Adam Gopnick Malcolm GladDown. Mark Bowden sions.” The worst punishment was x centuries the Indi- cific Ocean. Despite kept by Lewis,Clark and several members of the Corps of Discovery, as it was officially known, Paton pro- Don Miguel given 75 lashes for “mutinous expres- men of the Corps who thrashed his back with their ramrodsashe ran. He Teceived aboutfive hundred lashes.” Manyhistorians have speculated that Floyd died from a ruptured appendix. Based on symptomsreported in the journals, Paton saysthatit is more likely he died from an intestinal infection. Similarly, many historians have writes, tails in the journals Nation. Eric Schlosser (Pe- general ofAmerican Indians (except when exon white diseases for which they had not built up immunities, such as smallpox) was a result of the way they lived. Rather, he on the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clarkexpedition to the Pa- wood (Anchor) the good physical health quentdays, and the illness Aes Paton,in Lewis & Clark, Doctors in the Wilderness, at tempts to provide a detailed studyofthe dort The Red Tent. Anita Diamant (Pica 2. Girl With a Pearl Earring.Tracy the illness of Sacagawea, the gunshot woundof Lewis.” He does notlist as a major medical crisis, but does discuss in somedetail, the lashes meted outto several members of the expedition whoin one wayor anotherdispleased Lewis and Clark. John Newman was Paton does not accept the theory 8iven to MosesReed, whowas accused Clark’s progress in subse- 9. hiresHele Bill Phillips and Michael D’ (HarperCollins) 10. Sag lesley el Jack qeWeilch with John A. Byrne (W: é rab Paetteck Fiction a consciousness when he lists in his preface what he considers to be the “three major medical crises [of the expedition]: the death of Sergeant Floyd, get a glimpse of the ski jumping from the windows of the Summit County Library at Kimball Junction — the building overlooks the Olympic Park — will need to make other plans. The library, which opened in November, will be closed for the rest of February because ofOlympic congestion. On the bright side, borrowers can keep library items through the month, including books ontape to pass the time in traffic. Author Honored: Darius men they were not married to or, ina few cases, of Indian husbands offering their wivesto guests as acts of friendship, certainly contributed to the Martin Naparsteck reviews books spreadofboth syphilis and gonorrhea. from and about the West for The Salt “The most common form of Lake Tribune. dan and photographer Tom Till, Stan Stephen Trimble and the Tribune’s own Pat Bagley and Robert Kirby. Book Club Picks Stegner: This month’s Salt Lake Tribune Community Book Group selection is Wallace Stegner’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning grandparents’ experiences in mining camps of the 1870s West. Interested readers are invited to attend the free monthly meeting on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East. 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