Presidential Physician: Eugene Wasdin
1859-1911
Presidents
Education
- Medical school: Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 1882
Notes
- Spelled "Wasden" by Rixey
- Wasdin erroneously "confirmed" that a bacterium was the cause of yellow fever in 1899.
References
- Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.
- NY Med J. 1899;70:299-302. Cited on pp 7-8 of: Strode GK (ed). Yellow Fever. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1951.