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	Presidential Physician: Edward Curtis (1838-1912)

Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

- Post-mortem: consultant physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1864

Notes

1. Curtis was then a pathologist at the Army Medical Museum. [Kunhardt p92]
 

2. His letter describing Lincoln's autopsy is quoted in [Kunhardt pp93,95]
 

3. Photo appears in [Kunhardt p92]

References

• Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.
 

• Kunhardt DM, Kunhardt PB Jr. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed. New York: Castle Books, 1965.