Presidential Physician: Joseph Janvier Woodward
1833-1884
Presidents
| Abraham Lincoln | Post-mortem: | Consultant Physician |
| James Garfield | Shooting (First Day): | Consultant Physician |
| James Garfield | Shooting (in Washington): | Consultant Physician |
| James Garfield | Post-mortem: | Consultant Physician |
| Chester Arthur | During Presidency: | Consultant Physician |
Education
- Degree: MD
- Medical school: University of Pennsylvania, 1853
Military
- LTC Woodward was an Army surgeon, specializing in use of the microscope [Henry pp36-41].
Notes
- Native of Philadelphia [Henry p34]. Published an article describing the Army Medical Museum in Lippincott's Magazine in 1871 [Henry p60].
- Woodward and Dr. Edward Curtis were the two physicians who performed the [head only] autopsy on President Lincoln. Woodward's report is reprinted in The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook 1a.
- "Back from Europe, Woodward suffered a broken leg on 1 January 1881, when his horse slipped and fell on him, but he was able to resume work at the [Army Medical] Museum in time to be one of the physicians attending President James A. Garfield, when the President was shot and fatally wounded" [Henry p68]. Woodward recorded Garfield's autopsy.
- Photo appears in [Henry pp15, 35].
References
- Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.
- Henry RS. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its First Century, 1862-1962. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
- Heritage Auctions Inc.; Dixey, Marsha (ed.). Heritage Historical Americana Auction #6014 the Dr. John K. Lattimer Collection of Lincolniana. Dallas, TX: Heritage Capital Corporation, 2008. Page 58.
- Kunhardt DM, Kunhardt PB Jr. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed. New York: Castle Books, 1965.
- Rapkiewicz AV, et al. Surgical pathology in the era of the Civil War: the remarkable accomplishments of Joseph Janvier Woodward, MD. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005; 129: 1313-1316.
Cited Sources
- Sotos, John G. The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook. Mt. Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Book Systems, 2008.
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