James Carter

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President #39.

Lived: 1924·date.		Served: 1977·1981.

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Maladies = pancreatic cancer · height · "runner's high" · tear gas eye irritation · hemorrhoids ·· Resources

Maladies and Conditions

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pancreatic cancer	Carter's two sisters, his brother, and his father died of pancreatic cancer. His mother had pancreatic, bone, and breast cancer when she died at age 85. McKusick speculates whether an environmental agent, such as an agricultural chemical or aflatoxin, could be responsible. [2a]
height	Carter was 5 feet 9 and 1/2 inches tall [3].
"runner's high"	Near collapse while running
tear gas eye irritation	"In 1977, on the Shah [of Iran]'s state visit to Washington, the Shah and the President stood for their commemorative photograph, wiping their eyes from the tear gas being used to keep the anti-Shah demonstrators at bay" [4a].
hemorrhoids	In 1978, Carter had to leave a Christmas party for White House staffers "to receive emergency treatment" for a painful hemorrhoid that left him "almost completely incapacitated from participating in any kind of public events" [1a]. For the first and only time during his Presidency, Carter cancelled all his scheduled events for the next day. He was given an injection of Demerol and slept at least part of that day. It was difficult for Carter to walk [1a]. The problem was successfully concealed from the public -- for a time. On Christmas Eve, however, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt "announced to the world that his good friend Jimmy had hemorrhoids and made a public appeal for all Egyptians... to pray on this holy day that I would be cured. ... The day after Christmas, for the first time in weeks, all the pain and discomfort went away. I was tempted to make a public announcement thanking people of all faiths for their prayers, but decided that we'd had enough publicity about my ailment. In any case, I've never received a better Christmas gift or felt more grateful for personal benefits that resulted from a nation at prayer" [1a]. Carter mentions that he was "first afflicted" with hemorrhoids as a young submarine officer, "but this time it was much worse than ever before" [1a]. It therefore appears this was a recurrent problem for him.

Resources

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Sharing Good Times Jimmy Carter	The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry Steven F. Hayward	Christmas in Plains: Memories Jimmy Carter

Resources used by Dr. Zebra

Carter, Jimmy. Christmas in Plains. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 0743224914 @ Amazon [a] pp. 117-120
McKusick, Victor A. Mendelian Inheritance in Man. 9th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. [a] MIM#260350
Later print editions have appeared, e.g. the 12th in 1998: Amazon (ISBN is 0801857422). The entire contents are freely available on the web as "Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)." The online version is more current than the printed version.
Page, Susan. Time-tested formulas suggest both Bush and Kerry will win on Nov. 2. USA Today. June 23, 2004.
Accessed through usatoday.com: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-23-bush-kerry-cover_x.htm
Walker, Martin. The Cold War. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. ISBN 0-8050-3454-4 @ Amazon [a] p. 247
The James Carter web page at the White House.
(7 matches when checked in November 2003)

Alternate index terms: Medical history of President Carter, Medical history of President James E. Carter, Medical history of President James Earl Carter, Medical history of Jimmy Carter.

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