The Health of the First Ladies: Medical Histories from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama (59 page)

Emmet, Thomas Addis

endocarditis

epilepsy

erysipelas

Evans, E.M.

Everett, Charles

eye ailments

Face the Nation,
L. Bush interview

Feelgood, Dr.

Fillmore, Abigail (earlier Powers)

Fillmore, Caroline

Fillmore, Mary Abigail “Abbie”

Fillmore, Millard (husband of Abigail)

Fillmore, Millard Powers (son of Abigail)

The Final Days
(Woodward and Bernstein)

Finney, John

First Ladies
(Anthony)

First Ladies
(Caroli)

First Ladies
(Truman)

First Ladies, overview

First Lady
(Dayton and Kaufman)

The First Lady of the Land
(Nirdlinger)

Fish, Julia

Foltz, Jonathan M.

Folsom, Frances “Frankie” (later Cleveland)

Foraker, Joseph B.

Ford, Betty (earlier Bloomer)

Ford, Bob

Ford, Gerald

Ford, Susan

Fouty, William 

Fox, Kathy

Fox, Maggie

fractures

France, Adams’ peace negotiations

Freud, Sigmund

Fugitive Slave Law

Gaither, Dr.

gallbladder disease

Galt, Edith Bolling (later Wilson)

Galt, Norman

Gara, Larry

Gardiner, David

Gardiner, Julia (later Tyler)

Gardiner, Margaret

Gardner, Franklin

Garfield, Abe

Garfield, James

Garfield, Lucretia 

Garrod, Archibald 

gastrointestinal maladies

Geer, Emily

George Washington University Hospital

Germantown, Pennsylvania

Gibbons, Henry

Gilbert, Robert E.

Gordon, Alice Gertrude “Altrude” (later Grayson)

Gordon, James

Gould, Louis L.

Gouveneur, Samuel

Graham, James Walter

Graham, Wallace

Grant, Julia Dent 

Grant, Nellie (later Sartoris)

Grant, Ulysses

Graves, Robert

Graves’ disease

Gray’s Ferry

Grayson, Alice Gertrude “Altrude” (earlier Gordon)

Grayson, Cary

Green, Charles

Greenbrier resort

Gross, Samuel

Guiteau, Charles

Gurewitsch, David

Hahnemann, Samuel

Haig, Alexander

Hall, Dr.

Hall, James Crowdhill

Halsted, William

Hamilton, Alexander

Hamman, Louis

Hardin, Bernard

Harding, Florence Kling DeWolfe

Harding, George

Harding, Phoebe

Harding, Warren

Harrison, Anna

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, Caroline (earlier Scott)

Harrison, Elizabeth

Harrison, Henry

Harrison, Jane Irwin

Harrison, Mary

Harrison, Russell

Harrison, William Henry

Hart, Craig

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hay, Mrs. John

Hayes, Emily (earlier Platt)

Hayes, Lucy Webb

Hayes, Russell

Hayes, Rutherford B.

head injuries

headaches

Healy, Maud 

heart ailments

hemorrhoids, L. Adams’

Henry, Anson

Herron, Eleanor (later Moore)

Herron, Harriet Collins 

Herron, Helen “Nellie” (later Taft) 

Herron, John Williamson 

Heymann, C. David 

Hibben, John Grier 

Hill, Clint 

Hippocrates 

Hirschfelder, Joseph 

Hobart, Jennie 

Holloway, Laura C. 

homeopathic treatments

Homestead strike 

Honyman, Robert 

Hoover, Allan Henry 

Hoover, Herbert, Jr. 

Hoover, Lou 

House, Edward 

Howe, Annie 

Howe, George, Jr. 

Howe, Nancy 

Hunt, Harriot Kezla 

Huntt, Henry 

Hutton, John 

hypertension 

hyperthyroidism 

hysterics 

infinitesimals law, homeopathy 

influenza, Edith Wilson’s 

Irving, Washington 

Jackson, Andrew 

Jacobson, Max 

jalap treatments 

Jaspan, Jonathan 

Jefferson, Thomas 

Jenner, Edward 

Johnson, Andrew 

Johnson, Eliza 

Johnson, Lady Bird 

Johnson, Louisa Catherine

Johnson, Lyndon B. 

Johnson, Martha 

Johnson, Reverdy 

Johnson, Thomas 

Johnston, William 

Kaufman, George S. 

Keckley, Elizabeth 

Keller, William 

Kennedy, Arabella 

Kennedy, Caroline 

Kennedy, Jacqueline “Jackie,”

Kennedy, John (Fillmore administration) 

Kennedy, John F. 

Kennedy, John F., Jr. 

Kennedy, Patrick Joseph 

Kennedy, Robert F. 

Kennedy, Rose 

Ketcham, Ralph 

kidney disease

Kirby, S. 

Knab, Douglas 

Kolmar, Dr. 

Kortright, Elizabeth (later Monroe) 

Kushner, Rose 

The Ladies of the White House
(Holloway) 

Lafayette, Madame de

Lane, Harriet 

laudanum 

Laughlin, Samuel L. 

Lawrence, Richard 

Lazear, Jesse 

lazy eye, J. Grant’s

Leahy, Christopher 

Lear, Polly 

Lear, Tobias 

Lee, Alice Hathaway (later Roosevelt) 

Lee, Burton, III 

Leech, Margaret 

leech treatments 

Lerner, Barron H. 

leukemia, R. Bush’s 

Leveran, Charles 

Levine, Samuel 

library, White House 

life expectancy, statistics 

Lincoln, Abraham 

Lincoln, Eddie 

Lincoln, Mary Todd 

Lincoln, Robert 

Lincoln, Tad 

Lincoln, Willie

Living History
(Clinton) 

Locock, Sir Charles 

Long, John D. 

Los Angeles Time
s 

Luckett, Edith (later Robbins, then Davis) 

Lukash, William 

lumpectomies 

Lungren, Jack 

Lungren, John C. 

lupus, dog’s 

lymphoma, J. Kenney’s 

Madison, Dolley 

Madison, James 

Maguire, Frank 

malaria 

mammograms, screening rates 

Marcy, William 

Mariano, Connie 

Mattingly, Thomas 

May, Dr. 

Mayo, Charles 

Mayo, William 

Mayo Clinic

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson

McAdoo, William 

McCallops, James S.

McDonough, Sally 

McDowell, Ephraim 

McIlrath, Dr. 

McIntire, Ross T. 

McKinley, Ida 

McKinley, Ida (child of Ida) 

McKinley, Katherine 

McKinley, William 

McLean, Evalyn 

Means, Abby A. 

measles 

Medical Mirro
r 

Menière’s disease 

mercury treatments 

methimazole 

Michela, Bernard J. 

Miller, Thomas 

Millie (dog) 

Modern First Ladies
(Gould) 

Monroe, Eliza Hay 

Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright 

Monroe, James (husband of Elizabeth) 

Monroe, James Spence (child of Elizabeth) 

Monroe, Maria Hester 

Moore, Eleanor (earlier Herron) 

Morgan, John 

Morris, Edmund 

mortality rates, diseases 

Moses, A. 

Mosier, John 

mosquitoes as vectors

Mrs. Adams in Winter
(O’Brien) 

Mumler, William H. 

Murray, William Vans 

National Enquire
r 

National First Ladies’ Library 

New York City 

New York Time
s 

Nirdlinger, Charles F. 

Nixon, Julie (later Eisenhower) 

Nixon, Pat

Nixon, Richard M. 

Norris, Basil 

Noyan treatments 

Obama, Michelle 

O’Brien, Michael 

Onassis, Aristotle 

Ord, Mary 

O’Reilly, Robert M. 

Orman, Ben 

Osler, William 

osteoarthritis 

Packard, Francis Appleton 

Packard, Randall M. 

pancreatitis, B. Ford’s 

Paracelsus 

partnership patterns 

Payne, Anna 

Payne, Dorothea 

phenobarbital 

Philadelphia, yellow fever epidemics 

Phillips, Dr. 

phrenology 

Physick, Philip Synge 

Pierce, Benny 

Pierce, Frank Robert 

Pierce, Franklin 

Pierce, Franklin, Jr. 

Pierce, Jane Appleton 

Pillsbury, Stanley 

Plasmodium
spp. 

Platt, Emily (later Hayes) 

pneumonia 

Pocahontas 

political advisor role, during the 1800s

political advisor role, during the 1900s

Polk, Gustavus 

Polk, James 

Polk, Sarah (earlier Childress) 

Portman, Dr. 

Powel, Elizabeth Willing 

Powers, Abigail (later Fillmore) 

prednisone 

preeclampsia 

pregnancies, during the 1800s

pregnancies, during the 1900s

The Presidents’ Wives
(Watson)

Preston, Thomas Jex 

Princeton,
explosion 

professions/occupations, before White House

quinine treatments 

Radcliffe, Donnie 

Randolph, Edmund 

rankings: First Lady 

Reagan, Nancy (earlier Robbins, then Davis) 

Reagan, Patti 

Reagan, Ron 

Reagan, Ronald 

Reed, Walter 

Reeves, Thomas 

Regula, Mary 

Regula, Ralph 

respiratory ailments

rheumatic fever, M. Eisenhower’s 

rheumatism/rheumatoid arthritis

Richardson, Charles W. 

Riley, Dr.

Riley, James Whitcomb 

Rixey, Presley Marion 

Robb, George 

Robbins, Edith (earlier Luckett, later Davis) 

Robbins, Nancy (later Davis, then Reagan) 

Rockefeller, Happy 

Rolfe, John

Rolfe, Thomas 

Roosevelt, Alice Hathaway (earlier Lee) 

Roosevelt, Anna 

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carrow 

Roosevelt, Eleanor 

Roosevelt, Ethel 

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 

Roosevelt, Quentin 

Roosevelt, Theodore 

Ruffin, Sterling 

Rush, Benjamin 

Ryan, Thelma Catherine “Pat” (later Nixon) 

Ryan, Tom 

Safire, William 

Salinger, Pierre 

Sartoris, Algernon 

Sartoris, Nellie Grant 

Sawyer, Carl 

Sawyer, Charles 

Sayre, Francis 

Sayre, Jesse (earlier Wilson) 

Schlesinger, Arthur 

Schumer, Charles 

Scott, Caroline (later Harrison) 

Scott, Henry (friend of McKinleys) 

Scott, Henry M. (brother of Caroline Scott, later Harrison) 

Scott, John 

Scott, Mary 

Scott, W. 

sepsis, I. McKinley’s 

Sewall, Thomas 

Seward, William 

Shepherd, Jack 

similia principle, homeopathy 

skin cancer, L. Bush’s 

smallpox 

Smathers, George 

Smith, Abigail “Nabby” (earlier Adams) 

Smith, Helen McCain 

Smith, James 

Smith, Margaret Mackall (later Taylor) 

Snow, Tony 

Snyder, Howard 

social/ceremonial role, during the 1800s

social/ceremonial role, during the 1900s

Spalding, Chuck 

spiritualism 

squamous cell carcinoma, L. Bush’s 

staph infection, J. Coolidge’s 

Stephens, Charles 

Sternberg, William 

Sterrett, William 

Stone, Robert K. 

strabismus, J. Grant’s 

strokes, during the 1800s

strokes, during the 1900s

subdural hematoma, H. Clinton’s 

suicidal thoughts/suicides

surgeries

Sydenham, Thomas 

Taft, Charles Phelps 

Taft, Helen (daughter of Nellie) 

Taft, Helen Herron “Nellie,”

Taft, Horace 

Taft, Mary-Florence 

Taft, Robert 

Taft, William Howard 

tartar treatments 

Taylor, Ann Margaret (later Wood) 

Taylor, Margaret Mackall (earlier Smith) 

Taylor, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” (later Bliss) 

Taylor, Octavia 

Taylor, Sarah Knox (later Davis) 

Taylor, Zachary 

temperance movement

Thackery, William Makepeace 

Thistlethwaite, Richard 

Thomas, John Moylan 

thyroid problems, Bushs’

Tillary, Dr. 

tobacco use 

Todd, John (husband of D. Madison) 

Todd, John Payne (son of D. Madison) 

Todd, Lucy 

Todd, Thomas 

Todd, William Temple 

toxemia of pregnancy

transparency practices, overview 

Travell, Janet 

Trenton, New Jersey 

Trist, Elizabeth 

Trudeau, Edward 

Trudeau, Francis 

Truman, Bess Wallace 

Truman, Harry 

Truman, Mary Margaret 

Tubb, Richard 

tuberculosis

Tufts, Cotton 

tumors

Tyler, Elizabeth (later Waller) 

Tyler, John 

Tyler, Julia Gardiner 

Tyler, Letitia Christian 

Tyler, Letitia Semple 

Tyler, Mary 

Tyler, Priscilla Cooper 

Tyler, Robert 

typhoid fever 

typhus 

ulcers, B. Truman’s 

uremic poisoning 

vaccinations 

Van Valzah, William 

Venzke, Jane Walter 

vertigo problems, M. Eisenhower’s 

vesico-vaginal fistula, C. Harrison’s 

Waller, Elizabeth Tyler

Walsh, John 

Walters, Barbara 

Warren, Bill 

Washington, Fanny Bassett 

Washington, George 

Washington, Martha 

Washington, D.C., climate hazards 

Washington Pos
t