Medical Treatment at the Time of Garfield (United We Read)

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
HMMPL Zionsville Location

Event Details

Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic demonstrates convincingly that President James Garfield died, not of an assassin's bullet, but of the medical treatment he received for his gunshot wound. At the time Garfield was assassinated, the value of antisepsis was still being debated by the American medical community. In this talk, Diane Prenatt, Professor of English at Marian University, surveys the consequences of that debate as they are depicted in American literature and visual art.
Event Type(s): Adult Programs

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