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	Presidential Physician: Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833-1884)

Presidents

1	Abraham Lincoln	- Post-mortem: consultant physician
2	James Garfield	- Post-mortem: consultant physician - During the months in Washington after assassination shooting: consultant physician - In the first day after assassination shooting: consultant physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: University of Pennsylvania, 1853

Notes

• Woodward was an assistant surgeon at the time of Lincoln's assassination.

References

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

2. 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.
 

3. Rapkiewicz AV, et al. Surgical pathology in the era of the Civil War: the remarkable accomplishments of Joseph Janvier Woodward, MD. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005; 129: 1313-1316.