Bicentennial Story #101-Hospital at Fort Mandan

Bicentennial Story #101-Hospital at Fort Mandan

Account of Fort Mandan's use as a hospital in 1804-1805.

9/18/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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BS-101

Fort Mandan, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Soon after Lewis and Clark built Fort Mandan, it became a hospital for both soldiers and Indians. They treated Interpreter George Drewyer for pleurisy by bleeding him and giving him hot sage tea to induce sweating. On January 10, 1805, an Indian brought in his 13 year old boy with frozen feet. On January 27, Clark recorded: "Capt. Lewis took off the toes of one foot of the Boy who got frost bit some time ago." The amputation was successful, and on February 23 the explorer noted: "The father of the Boy whose feet were frosed near this place, and nearly cured by us, took him home in a Slay."

This is Bicentennial Story No. 101, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller, for the Stark County Historical Society.

Reid, 124, 134, 136, 160

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Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107