{"id":3128,"date":"2016-09-14T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dittrickmuseumblog.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:30:04","slug":"how-did-president-garfield-die-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/2016\/09\/14\/how-did-president-garfield-die-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did President Garfield Die? [part 3]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our series on Garfield&#8217;s death&#8211;join us for the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/dittrickmuseumblog.com\/conversations-line-up-2016-tentative\/conversations-presidents-public-health-and-pre-antiseptic-medicine\/\">Thursday<\/a>, and read more at the Plain Dealer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2016\/09\/presidents_and_health_how_jame.html\">cleveland.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3129 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday.jpg\" alt=\"wednesday\" width=\"543\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday.jpg 543w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday-457x668.jpg 457w, https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday-500x731.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a>Wednesday<\/strong>:<b> (Harper\u2019s Magazine, Volume 25, 628)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On September 17, 1881, Harper\u2019s Weekly published these scenes with the following titles: \u201cRemoving the President from the White House\u201d and \u201cRemoving the president from the Express Wagon to the Railway car.\u201d He had already been bedridden some time and through the hottest months. When September arrived, the President demanded to be removed from to the seaside; Dr. Bliss tried to forbid it, but Garfield insisted that he <em>was not asking permission<\/em>. Carefully removed to a train, he was transported to the Francklyn Cottage in Elberon, New Jersey, with loyal followers throwing straw on the tracks to make the ride easier.\u00a0 Garfield had always found comfort and peace in seeing the ocean; however, the fresh airs and tranquility did not aid to his recovery. In the following weeks the President&#8217;s conditioned worsened.<\/p>\n<p><em>Posting by Celia Wan, Dittrick Museum Intern<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our series on Garfield&#8217;s death&#8211;join us for the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/dittrickmuseumblog.com\/conversations-line-up-2016-tentative\/conversations-presidents-public-health-and-pre-antiseptic-medicine\/\">Thursday<\/a>, and read more at the Plain Dealer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2016\/09\/presidents_and_health_how_jame.html\">cleveland.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday.jpg\"><\/a>Wednesday<\/strong>:<b> (Harper\u2019s Magazine, Volume 25, 628)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On September 17, 1881, Harper\u2019s Weekly published these scenes with the following titles: \u201cRemoving the President from the White House\u201d and \u201cRemoving the president from the Express Wagon to the Railway car.\u201d He had already been bedridden some time and through the hottest months. When September arrived, the President demanded to be removed from to the seaside; Dr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/2016\/09\/14\/how-did-president-garfield-die-part-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Did President Garfield Die? [part 3]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[429,111,131],"tags":[420,233],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2016\/09\/25105429\/wednesday.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5591,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/5591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}