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Health and Medical History of President Ulysses GrantPresident #18: 1869-1877
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![]() complexity aversion |
According to one historian, Grant's "peace of mind required that he be shielded from the
complicated side of anything"
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![]() ![]() abuse? |
How much did Grant smoke cigars and drink?
During the first Battle of the Wilderness, Grant was seen to smoke 20 cigars from sunup to
sundown
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Reliability of this information is uncertain.
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![]() ![]() throat cancer |
It was with Grant's cancer that Americans began to fear this disease (saw this in a book called
Cancer, written about 1988).
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Ampres Series
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Signature Series
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a p.259
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a p.137
Comment: Devotes one chapter to each President, through Clinton. Written for the layperson, well-referenced, with areas of speculation clearly identified, Dr. Zebra depends heavily on this book. Dr. Bumgarner survived the Bataan Death March and has written an unforgettable book casting a physician's eye on that experience.
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![]() | Comment: Credibility is dubious. Just before a list of Presidents, the article states: "Twenty of the 32 Presidents ... are proved or believed on a thick web of circumstance to have been nocturnal nuisances in the White House." |
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a p.161 b p.157
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a p.68
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![]() | Comment: Reports the results Catherine L. Reed and colleagues: To not hear music: A case of congential amusia. Society for Neuroscience meeting. November 2-7, 2002. Orlando, Fla. |
![]() | Comment: Pendel was door-keeper at the White House from the time of Lincoln to the time of Theodore Roosevelt. Full text is available on-line at loc.gov. It is a rather dry book, and reads as if it were written by an old man. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?lhbcbbib:1:./temp/~~ammem_rEou:: |
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a pp.236-238
Comment: Stoddard was editor and owner of the New York Evening Mail from 1900 to 1925.
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a p.323 b p.322
Comment: Maps -- in great detail -- the ancestors and descendants of American presidents through Ronald Reagan. They would have had an exhausting time with President Obama's family tree! MORE
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