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	Presidential Physician: Eugene Wasdin (1859-1911)

Presidents

William McKinley

- Immediately after assassination shooting: primary anesthesiologist - Immediately after assassination shooting: bystander physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 1882

Notes

• Spelled "Wasden" by Rixey
 

• Wasden erroneously "confirmed" that a bacterium was the cause of yellow fever in 1899.

References

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

• NY Med J. 1899;70:299-302. Cited on pp 7-8 of: Strode GK (ed). Yellow Fever. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1951.