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Highlights
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Medical Effects on the Conduct of the Presidency
Woodrow Wilson
and his stroke
Ronald Reagan
and his Alzheimer disease
James Garfield
and his long lingering death
Franklin Pierce
and his alcoholism
Politics and Presidential Illness
Grover Cleveland
and his secret cancer operation
Franklin Roosevelt
and his hypertensive cardiovascular disease
George Washington
and his sterility
John Kennedy
and his Addison disease cover-up
Medical Science and Presidential Illness
James Garfield
and the unfortunate attempts to save him
William McKinley
and the failed operation to save his life
Ronald Reagan
and the triumph of modern trauma care
Historical Ramifications of Presidential Illness
Franklin Roosevelt
and his mental capacity at Yalta and Potsdam
Woodrow Wilson
and his mental state during World War I reconstruction
Zachary Taylor
, his death, and the avoidance of Civil War
When the Patient is the President
Dwight Eisenhower
and the decision to operate
Mysteries
John Tyler
-- did he have botulism?
James Polk
-- did a childhood operation leave him impotent?
Harry Truman
-- did he have diphtheritic hypermetropia?
The President as a Physician
William Harrison
-- attended medical school
William Taft
-- overrules a doctor at Ellis Island
William Taft
-- "A president of the United States, it might be assumed, is too busy or too important an official to deal with the kidney excretions of even the most influential convict."
"Oh, the Humanity!"
William Taft
and his gout
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