الأربعاء، 3 يوليو 2013

The medical histories of America's presidents

A hat tip to the crazy cat lady for sending me the link to a website devoted to collecting the details of the health of American presidents.

Some entries are extensive - Franklin Delano Roosevelt's includes information on his polio (though no mention of the alternative possibility of Guillain-Barre), his hypetensive cardiomyopathy, and his atherosclerosis ("arteries so atherosclerotic that embalmers could not get a needle into them.")

Others seem to amass trivia - William Taft had, in addition to his sleep apnea, a bad cold, an episode of motion sickness, constipation, and a sunburn on his bald spot.

An interesting resource.

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