Powel, Elizabeth Willing
Powers, Abigail (later Fillmore)
prednisone
preeclampsia
pregnancies, during the 1800s
pregnancies, during the 1900s
The Presidents’ Wives (Watson)
Preston, Thomas Jex
Princeton, explosion
professions/occupations, before White House
quinine treatments
Radcliffe, Donnie
Randolph, Edmund
rankings: First Lady
Reagan, Nancy (earlier Robbins, then Davis)
Reagan, Patti
Reagan, Ron
Reagan, Ronald
Reed, Walter
Reeves, Thomas
Regula, Mary
Regula, Ralph
respiratory ailments
rheumatic fever, M. Eisenhower’s
rheumatism/rheumatoid arthritis
Richardson, Charles W.
Riley, Dr.
Riley, James Whitcomb
Rixey, Presley Marion
Robb, George
Robbins, Edith (earlier Luckett, later Davis)
Robbins, Nancy (later Davis, then Reagan)
Rockefeller, Happy
Rolfe, John
Rolfe, Thomas
Roosevelt, Alice Hathaway (earlier Lee)
Roosevelt, Anna
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carrow
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Ethel
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Quentin
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ruffin, Sterling
Rush, Benjamin
Ryan, Thelma Catherine “Pat” (later Nixon)
Ryan, Tom
Safire, William
Salinger, Pierre
Sartoris, Algernon
Sartoris, Nellie Grant
Sawyer, Carl
Sawyer, Charles
Sayre, Francis
Sayre, Jesse (earlier Wilson)
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schumer, Charles
Scott, Caroline (later Harrison)
Scott, Henry (friend of McKinleys)
Scott, Henry M. (brother of Caroline Scott, later Harrison)
Scott, John
Scott, Mary
Scott, W.
sepsis, I. McKinley’s
Sewall, Thomas
Seward, William
Shepherd, Jack
similia principle, homeopathy
skin cancer, L. Bush’s
smallpox
Smathers, George
Smith, Abigail “Nabby” (earlier Adams)
Smith, Helen McCain
Smith, James
Smith, Margaret Mackall (later Taylor)
Snow, Tony
Snyder, Howard
social/ceremonial role, during the 1800s
social/ceremonial role, during the 1900s
Spalding, Chuck
spiritualism
squamous cell carcinoma, L. Bush’s
staph infection, J. Coolidge’s
Stephens, Charles
Sternberg, William
Sterrett, William
Stone, Robert K.
strabismus, J. Grant’s
strokes, during the 1800s
strokes, during the 1900s
subdural hematoma, H. Clinton’s
suicidal thoughts/suicides
surgeries
Sydenham, Thomas
Taft, Charles Phelps
Taft, Helen (daughter of Nellie)
Taft, Helen Herron “Nellie,”
Taft, Horace
Taft, Mary-Florence
Taft, Robert
Taft, William Howard
tartar treatments
Taylor, Ann Margaret (later Wood)
Taylor, Margaret Mackall (earlier Smith)
Taylor, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” (later Bliss)
Taylor, Octavia
Taylor, Sarah Knox (later Davis)
Taylor, Zachary
temperance movement
Thackery, William Makepeace
Thistlethwaite, Richard
Thomas, John Moylan
thyroid problems, Bushs’
Tillary, Dr.
tobacco use
Todd, John (husband of D. Madison)
Todd, John Payne (son of D. Madison)
Todd, Lucy
Todd, Thomas
Todd, William Temple
toxemia of pregnancy
transparency practices, overview
Travell, Janet
Trenton, New Jersey
Trist, Elizabeth
Trudeau, Edward
Trudeau, Francis
Truman, Bess Wallace
Truman, Harry
Truman, Mary Margaret
Tubb, Richard
tuberculosis
Tufts, Cotton
tumors
Tyler, Elizabeth (later Waller)
Tyler, John
Tyler, Julia Gardiner
Tyler, Letitia Christian
Tyler, Letitia Semple
Tyler, Mary
Tyler, Priscilla Cooper
Tyler, Robert
typhoid fever
typhus
ulcers, B. Truman’s
uremic poisoning
vaccinations
Van Valzah, William
Venzke, Jane Walter
vertigo problems, M. Eisenhower’s
vesicovaginal fistula, C. Harrison’s
Waller, Elizabeth Tyler
Walsh, John
Walters, Barbara
Warren, Bill
Washington, Fanny Bassett
Washington, George
Washington, Martha
Washington, D.C., climate hazards
Washington Post
Watson, Robert P.
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Fletcher
Weinstein, Edwin A.
Welch, William
Wesleyan Female College
The White House Doctor (Mariano)
White House Medical Unit
White Oaks Sanatorium
Whitson, Susan
Widdowson, Dr.
Wikoff, Dr.
Willis, John
Willis, Nelly
Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt
Wilson, Eleanor (later McAdoo)
Wilson, Ellen Axson
Wilson, Jesse (later Sayre)
Wilson, J.R.
Wilson, Margaret
Wilson, Woodrow
Wood, Ann Margaret (earlier Taylor)
Wood, James Craven
Wood, Lawrence C.
Wood, Leonard
Wood, Robert Crooke
Woodbury, Levi
Woodward, Bob
Wyman, Jane
yellow fever epidemics
Young, Hugh
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