INFECTIOUS CAUSE OF DEATH
James Garfield was a lay preacher and principal in his denominational college. He was ambidextrous and could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time. In 1880, he was elected president of the United States. Just 6 months in office, he was shot in the back with a revolver. He never lost consciousness. At the hospital, the doctor probed the wound with his little finger, but could not find the bullet. Then he tried a silver tipped probe but still no bullet. They took the President back to Washington DC. He was growing very weak. Whole teams of doctors sought to find the bullet. In desperation they asked Alexander Graham Bell, working on the telephone, if he could locate the metal. He too failed. The president hung on through July, through August, into September when he finally died, not from the wound, but from the infection. The repeated probing actually killed him. So it…
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