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	Presidential Physician: Robert King Stone (1822-1872)

Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

- Post-mortem: consultant physician - Immediately after assassination shooting: physician - During presidency: primary physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: University of Pennsylvania, 1845

Notes

1. Stone was the Lincoln family physician during the White House years.
 

2. He was a Princeton alumnus who had furthered his medical education in Europe, emphasizing eye diseases.
 

3. Stone's medical records for the Lincolns, if any ever existed, have not been found. A disparaging remark about Mary and a praiseworthy remark about Abraham have survived. (Burlingame: Inner World of Abraham Lincoln)
 

4. Photo appears in [Kunhardt p92]

References

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

2. Crellin JK. Robert King Stone, M.D., physician to Abraham Lincon. Illinois Med J. 1979;155:97-99.
 

3. 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.
 

4. Shutes MH. Lincoln and the Doctors: A Medical Narrative of the Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Pioneer Press, 1933.