Leeches and snakeroot

[Plankton5165]

Eight presidents succumbed in office, the first one was William Henry Harrison.

In 1841, he suffered a really bad cold three weeks after taking office. The cold would eventually go from really bad to much worse. It became pneumonia. He couldn't find a quiet room to get rest, due to the steady crowd of office seekers. He was barely able to rest due to his extremely busy social schedule. At the time, he was the oldest president elected, and kept the title for 140 years.

At the time, Ohio was 38 years old. Alaska and Hawaii right now are both 58 years old, you might as well watch the 1996 election.

Meanwhile in 1841, Harrison's doctors tried to use some items for cures, they applied opium and castor oil, they also applied leeches and snakeroot.

A leech is a worm and snakeroot is poison! Of course it isn't gonna work!

[Kingpoleon]

You know leeches are still used in modern medicine(particularly in animals which, to put it in layman's terms, have limbs/areas that are suffering from little to no blood flow) to get blood flowing, right?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Also pretty much every medicine is a poison if you take too much.