Bright's Disease, Malaria, and Machine Politics: The Story of the Illness of President Chester A. Arthur

In July of 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot in the back at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died after an extended illness and Chester A. Arthur assumed the presidency on September 20, 1881. He served the remaining three and a half years but was ill for most of h...

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Main Author: Theodore N. Pappas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2017-10-01
Series:The Surgery Journal
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0037-1612632