Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[Gene C]

By the time they reached Paducah, Kentucky, Polk finally saw a doctor who inexplicably told him he did not have cholera. Three people on the Polks' boat had already died of it, and the doctor had read reports of the disease heading upriver with every ship from New Orleans.

By the time he reached Nashville and Polk Place, there was no saving him. He died on June 15, 1849, just 103 days after leaving office.

Happy to inform you the quality of medical care here in Paducah is a little better since Polk's time.
We haven't had a cholera outbreak in years.
They have also cut the waiting time for the lab reports by almost half.