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	Presidential Physician: Beecher Todd

Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

- Immediately after assassination shooting: consultant physician

Notes

• He appeared in the Peterson House at some point during the night.
 

• Todd, of Lexington, Kentucky, was a "cousin and dear friend" of Mrs. Lincoln [Helm]

References

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

• Helm, Katherine. The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln. New York: Harper & Bros., 1928. Page 259