Posted on 09/18/2019 4:26:40 PM PDT by NRx
As happens frequently to prominent people, the "care" given to him by a medical flash mob, all of them eager to be proclaimed a magician, is what killed the president.
Both McKinley and Garfield would have survived, as well, if half a hundred doctors hadn't shown up to stick their filthy fingers into the bullet hole to determine the depth and angle.
There was even an x-ray machine at the Buffalo World's Fair, where McKinley was shot, but it wasn't used.
LOL! Probably a LOT of our ‘Great Great Grandfathers’!
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I’ve read that it was a tainted bowl of cherries that did him in. The Dim’s thought they would be able to manipulate his successor. They failed.
Looks like the doctors killed another patient.
I read that all the probing for the bullet ended up killing President James Garfield
Wiki: Doctors continued to probe Garfield’s wound with dirty, unsterilized fingers and instruments, attempting to find the bullet,[53] and Alexander Graham Bell devised a metal detector specifically to find it.
He was unsuccessful, partly because Garfield’s metal bed frame made the instrument malfunction, and partly because self-appointed chief physician Doctor Willard Bliss allowed Bell to use the device only on Garfield’s right side, where Bliss insisted the bullet had lodged.[54] Bell’s subsequent tests indicated that his metal detector was in good working order and that he would have found the bullet had he been allowed to use the device on Garfield’s left side
Making Davis the brother-in-law of Zachary's son, Richard, who turned out to be a pretty good general considering he had no formal military education.
Richard Taylor wrote a very good memoir about his time in the Confederate Army, “Destruction and Reconstruction”, which I see is currently offered for free for Kindle. I read the book some years ago, never realized that he was Zachary Taylor’s son until you just mentioned it.
Jefferson Davis met Sarah Knox Taylor when he was second in command of a fort under her father Zachary Taylor. They married and she died of malaria three months later in Louisiana, Zachary Taylor blamed Davis for taking his daughter to Louisiana during the summer. Davis pretty much became a recluse for about ten years after her death, her death devastated him. Eventually he and Taylor reconciled and Davis remarried. She was quite the beauty from her portraits.
By coincidence, I am just reading the definitive biography of Zachary Taylor by Holman Hamilton (Kindle edition). Excellent, very thorough, well written. Taylor was a mensch.
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