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Use the Library of Congress Online Catalog (http://catalog.loc.gov/) to research the topic of the health of U.S. Presidents and their spouses. Below are some canned browse searches using Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) subject headings for locating more print materials on the topic.

Bibliographies and Catalogues

The following print bibliographies and catalogues provide the researcher with pointers to more information on these topics. The links go to the Library of Congress Online Catalog and provide more descriptive information on each resource.

Disease and destiny; a bibliography of medical references to the famous by Judson Bennett Gilbert
Call Number: Z6664.A1 G5
Published/Created: 1962-01-01
Worldwide in scope, this volume is “a bibliography of medical references to the famous,” 1660 to 1961. Contains citations, mostly from journals, on the physical and mental abnormalities of selected presidents from George Washington to Franklin Roosevelt.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Call Number: Z6676 .U6
ISBN: 0733978X
Published/Created: 1880-1961
The catalog is a multi-part printed bibliography of items in the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, U.S. Army. It lists material from the 1400s through 1950 and has at least 1,200 references related to presidential health.
Subject Catalogue of the History of Medicine and Related Sciences by Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London (Editor)
Call Number: Z6660.8 .W44 1980 R131
ISBN: 3601000008
Published/Created: 1980-01-01
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