When The President Is The Patient

The Rose Melnick Medical Museum

Presents

When the President

Is the Patient

George Washington

• 1st President• Lived 1732-1799• Served 1789-1798

Death of Washington, 1799

William Henry Harrison

• 9th President• Lived 1773-1841• Served for one month

(March 4 – April 4, 1841)

Wm H. Harrison’s Inauguration, 1841

Death of Wm. H. Harrison, 1841

Zachary Taylor

• 12th President• Lived 1784-1850• Served 1849-1850

Zachary Taylor, War Hero

Death of Zachary Taylor, 1850

James A. Garfield

• 20th President• Lived 1831-1881• Served March 4 –

September 19, 1881

Assassination of James A. Garfield, 1881

Charles Guiteau

Doctors Discussing Garfield’s Wounds

Grover Cleveland

• 22nd & 24th President• Lived 1837-1908• Served 1885-1889• Served 1893-1897

Grover Cleveland’s Family

Grover Cleveland: Cancer Survivor

Woodrow Wilson

• 28th President• Lived 1856-1924• Served 1913-1921

Wilson Throwing Out the First Baseball of the Season

“He Kept Us Out of War”

An Ailing President Wilson

Edith Wilson: Mrs. President?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 32nd President• Lived 1882-1945• Served 1933-1945

Young F.D. Roosevelt Running for Vice President in 1920

FDR in a Wheelchair

FDR Propped Up During a Speech

FDR’s Funeral Procession, 1945

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 34th President• Lived 1890-1969• Served 1953-1960

Ike, the War Hero, 1944

Eisenhowers Watching TV

Ike’s Motorcade in Afghanistan

John F. Kennedy

• 35th President• Lived 1917-1963• Served 1961-1963

Lt. Kennedy, U.S.N.

Lt. Kennedy’s PT 109

Congressman Kennedy

Kennedy Taken to Hospital, 1954

Before and After Steroids

JFK in His Rocking Chair

Dallas, November 22, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

• 36th President• Lived 1908-1973• Served 1963-1969

LBJ Signing the Civil Rights Bill, 1964

LBJ’s Scar

Ronald W. Reagan

• 40th President• Lived 1911-2006• Served 1981-1989

Reagan’s Inauguration, 1980

Reagan at Leisure

George H.W. Bush

• 41st President• Lived 1924-• Served 1989-1993