[NRx]

Note the different view on the importance of the Federal Government from our modern one. For only the second time in history a sitting POTUS has expired before his term of office. And yet you need to go to page 4(!) to find the announcement and a short but rather moving obituary. Among the news items from the front page we find some local political news, a steamboat accident, a fire in Newark NJ and one Thomas Brown apparently became ill from overwork and had to taken home by a policeman.

[Publius]

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/zachary-taylors-body-exhumed-june-17-1991-057126

[Bonemaker]

“A Southern man and a slaveholder, his mind was above the narrow prejudices of district and class and steadily aimed at the good of the nation as a whole.”

Now that you mention it, democrats will try and purge his name and edifices,

[Tax-chick]

treated ... after the old system of practice, with purging, by calomel and otherwise, and blistering.

Or he might have lived.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Right above the article, there’s an item as germane then as now:

“Neither branch of Congress did anything worthy of special notice yesterday.”

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[SpaceBar]

treated with all the skills that science could form and affection render vigilant...

Quaint 19'th century prose for leeches and mercury salts.

[jonascord]

" he was treated with all the skills that science could form and affection render vigilant, as we learn, after the old system of practice, with purging, by calomel and otherwise, and blistering."

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.

[Nateman]

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.

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[Wonder Warthog]

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.

[Oratam]

"Not a statesman by genius or habit, he brought to the Presidency a sound practical judgement which often proved more reliable than those long versed in political affairs."

Mmm