Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis Bags & Packs Tom Jeffords

Tom Jeffords

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the roadrunner is a symbol of desert resilience

a female army surgeon won the Medal of Honor

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Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis Bags & Packs Tom JeffordsFrom a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales. In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than raids. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD, and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were