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Medical History of American Presidents

Compiled by Doctor Zebra

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 · 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 · James Carter · Ronald Reagan · George Bush · William Clinton · George W. Bush · Barack Obama · [Cheney] · McCain

This website tabulates the illnesses of American Presidents and other notable people. Both laypersons and physicians will find it interesting.

To get started, read Why do this?

Unless you have a fast connection to the Internet, view the text version of the Presidential histories instead of the graphical version.

Disclaimers & Warnings

I am not a historian. Nor am I expert on any of the Presidents. So there are certainly errors here. If you find one, please tell me. Every page has a "Contact Us" link. I apologize in advance if I have stepped on your professional field of study. Also note that I do not usually cite primary sources; I cite what I read.

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 Little Rock , 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.

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Medical Histories of the Presidents
 · The Histories: text
 · The Histories: graphical
 · The Histories: by organ system
 · Symbols used for organ systems
 · Presidential lifespans
 · Special Topics
 · Occupational hazards
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
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