Re: coldest inauguration since Reagan

On 2025-01-17, Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps the American people will get lucky and Donald Trump will pull a
William Henry Harrison; with the same results, of course.
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I had to actually look it up.  Thanks for the nudge! I'm sure I must
have learned this once, long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#Death_and_funeral

The interesting thing about this description of his illness and death, is all
the ridiculous medical treatments they used for what we'd probably
understand now as pneumonia -

* laxative
* mustard plaster to the stomach
* bloodletting
* etc.

Also interesting is that, even as his health worsened, the press
reported he was improving.  So, couldn't trust the press back then,
can't trust it now.