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Presidential Medicine

  • October 1, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

William Henry Harrison, the ninth U.S. president, was the only one who studied medicine, although he never became a doctor. He was also the first president to die in office, of pneumonia, less than two months after his inauguration in 1841.

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