1. How did Lincoln die?
- Author
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Fraser, Richard A.R.
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PRESIDENTS , *NINETEENTH century , *PHYSICIAN malpractice cases , *AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 , *DEATH , *HISTORY of medicine - Abstract
Looks at evidence which suggests that United States President Abraham Lincoln's death may have been partly the responsibility of the doctors who treated him after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth. Investigation of the medical treatment that Lincoln received after he was shot; The first doctor at the scene, 23-year-old Charles A. Leale; Discussion of the wound to Lincoln's head; More.
- Published
- 1995