The Doctors Who Killed a President: Garfield's Preventable Decline
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The Doctors Who Killed a President: Garfield's Preventable Decline
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The sight that should stop you cold: a drifter who couldn't pay rent chose an ivory-handled revolver because he thought it would look better in a museum, and he stood in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station at 9:30 a.m, on July 2, 1881. James A. Garfield did not die of the bullet lodged behind his pancreas; he died after eighty days of medical decisions that ignored available science. Who, ultimately, killed James Garfield?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the shooting to the president’s death and the medical choices made during the eighty days he lingered, asking whether those choices, rather than the bullet, were fatal. What medical knowledge existed in 1881 that was not used to save him?
Person: James Abram Garfield
Date: Shot on July 2, 1881; died September 19, 1881 at 10:35 p.m.
Location: Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C.; White House/Washington treatment locations referenced
Perpetrator: Charles Julius Guiteau
Event: Eighty days of medical treatment after shooting
- The assassin, Charles J. Guiteau, was 40 years old on the summer of 1881 and had been expelled from a utopian commune and divorced by his wife.
- Guiteau purchased a .442 Webley British Bulldog revolver from O'Meara’s hardware with $15 borrowed from George Maynard and chose the ivory-handled version.
- Garfield’s bullet lodged harmlessly behind the pancreas according to the episode, and the wound was described as survivable.
- President Garfield’s weight fell from 210 pounds to 130 pounds by the time of his death on September 19, 1881.
- Garfield was born November 19, 1831, and had a career as canal boatman, carpenter, janitor, teacher, college president at 26, Civil War commander, and congressman before becoming the 20th President.
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