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Medical History of U.S. PresidentsCompiled by John Sotos, MD |
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George Washington · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · James Monroe · John Q. Adams · Andrew Jackson · Martin van Buren · William Harrison · John Tyler · James Polk · Zachary Taylor · Millard Fillmore · Franklin Pierce · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln · Andrew Johnson · Ulysses Grant · Rutherford Hayes · James Garfield · Chester Arthur · Grover Cleveland · Benjamin Harrison · Grover Cleveland · William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · William Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover · Franklin Roosevelt · Harry Truman · Dwight Eisenhower · John Kennedy · Lyndon Johnson · Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · George Bush · William Clinton · George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Donald Trump.45 · Joseph Biden · Donald Trump.47
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| Medical Histories of the Presidents |
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| · By President |
| · By organ system |
| · Symbols for organ systems |
| · Presidential lifespans |
| · Oldest presidents |
| · Special Topics |
| · Occupational hazards |
| Editorials |
| · What's new? |
| · Why do this? |
| · Highlights |
| · Presidential medical reports |
| Medical Histories of Other Notable Persons |
| · Introduction |
| · Vice Presidents |
| · Presidential candidates |
| · English royalty |
| · Historical figures |
| Odds & Ends |
| · Doctors and Presidents |
| · Succession to Presidency |
| · Mission Creep |
| Reference |
| · Bibliography |
| · About |
| · Site Map |
This website tabulates the illnesses of American Presidents and
other notable people.
Both laypersons and physicians will find it interesting. It looks better on a laptop.
Caveats
Although I scrupulously cite references, that is not enough.
Long experience shows that writing accurately about any President's medical history
is impossible unless primary sources are thoroughly examined.
Secondary sources too often misinterpret medicine.
Here, the pages for both
Abraham Lincoln and
William Taft rest upon
exhaustive first-hand reviews of the primary literature. You can take them to the bank.
The pages for VP Cheney and
Trump47
are similarly based, but the sources are thin.
If you find an error, please tell me. Every page has a
"Contact Us"
link.
Please Help
This website is a spare-time hobby. If you can fill some of the
holes, great! Just send me a note. Include references, otherwise there's no point.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to KWO of Phoenix, FS of
Cork,
and the pub in
Kinsale,
where our shared interest reawakened the idea. Thanks also to
VAM
for sparking my interest in medical history. And thank you to the many people who
have sent suggestions over the years!