1.John F. Kennedy
No. 35 (1961-1963) Kennedy had many illnesses as a child, including scarlet fever, diphtheria, and asthma. But his most serious health problem was Addison’s disease, a life-threatening condition in which your immune system attacks your adrenal glands and they don’t make enough hormones. When he was diagnosed around age 30, his doctor gave him less than a year to live. He took steroids regularly as treatment until he was killed 15 years later in 1963.

 




 
 

2.George Washington
No. 1 (1789-1797) Two years after leaving office, when Washington was 67 and otherwise healthy, he woke in the night with a sore throat and trouble breathing. As treatment, his doctors took more than a half-gallon of blood from him during four «bleedings.» This was standard at the time, but it definitely didn’t work. He got much worse and died less than 24 hours later. Medical experts think he may have had a severe infection of the larynx (voice box).

 




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