The Poor Historians: Medical History Misadventures

President Cleveland's Secret Surgery (With Presidencies of the United States Podcast)

Aaron, Max, Mike, and Alba Episode 81

We invited Jerry Landry, host of the exceptional Presidencies of the U.S. Podcast onto the show today to help us discuss the clandestine surgery at sea that was done on President Grover Cleveland in the late 1800's. It was kind of a big deal.

Listen to the end to hear a teaser on the upcoming Patron inspired TV show review. We'll talk about it after our bonus content with Jerry at the end of this episode.

Go check out the Presidencies of the United States Podcast wherever you get your podcasts & follow Jerry Landry's work via his social media links below:

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Sources: 

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland Wikipedia on Grover Cleveland, main article
  2. https://lib.arizona.edu/hsl/materials/collections/secret-illness/cleveland University of Arizona website article on Cleveland’s surgery
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdA5SPM3iWU PBS News Hour feature on the surgery
  4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441833/ Mohs Surgery
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Tosi Christina Tosi Wikipedia article, she’s an American treasure
  6. https://muttermuseum.org/ Mutter Museum webpage
  7. https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/head-and-neck-cancer/risk-factors-and-prevention Cancer.net head and neck cancer risk factors and prevention
  8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385680/ - Surgical cure rates (small study)
  9. https://columbiasurgery.org/news/2015/12/10/president-grover-cleveland-had-deadly-secret Another account from Columbia Surgery 

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