[Clark:]
Saturday 24th. May 1806
a fine morning the Child was very restless last night its jaw
and back of its neck is much more swelled than it was yesterday.
I gave it a dost of creme of Tarter and a fresh Poltice
of Onions. ordered Shields, Gibson, Drewyer, Crusat, Collins,
and Jo. & rubin Fields to turn out hunting and if possible
cross Collins Creek and hunt towards the quarmash fields.
W. Brattin is yet very low he eats hardly but he is so weak
in the small of his back that he can't walk. we have made use
of every remedy to restore him without it's haveing the desired
effect. one of our party, John Shields observed that he had
seen men in similar situations restored by violent swets, and
bratten requested that he might be Swetted in the way Shields
purposed which we agreed to. Shields dug a round hole 4
feet deep & 3 feet Diamuter in which he made a large fire so
as to heet the hole after which the fire was taken out a seet
placed in the hole, the pat[i]ent was then set on the seat with
a board under his feet and a can of water handed him to throw
on the bottom & sides of the hole so as to create as greate a
heat as he could bear and the hole covered with blankets supported
by hoops. after about 20 minits the patient was taken
out and put in cold water a few minits, & returned to the hole
in which he was kept about 1 hour. then taken out and
covered with several blankets, which was taken off by degrees
untill he became cool. this remedy took place yesterday and
bratten is walking about to day and is much better than he has
been. at 11 A. M. a canoe came down with the Indian man
who had applyed for medical assistance while we lay at the
broken arms village. this man I had given a fiew doses of
Flower of Sulphur & creme of Tarter and derected that he
should take the Cold bath every morning. he conceited himself
a little better than he was at that time. he had lost the
use of all his limbs and his fingers are contracted. We are at
a loss to deturmine what to do for this unfortunate man. I
gave him a fiew drops of Lodmen and some portable Supe as
medisine. 4 of our men crossed the river and went to the
broken arms village and returned in the evening with a supply
of bread and roots which they precured in exchange for Awls
which were made of pieces of a chane. we were visited to day
by the 2 young men who gave Cap
t L. and my self a horse
each at the village. those men stayed about two hours and
returned to their village. this day proved to be very worm.
