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17 Now, he paced the floor: Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 380–86.
18 “It seems that the attending physicians”: Quoted in Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 112–13.
19 “more to cast distrust”: Quoted in Rutkow, James A. Garfield, 131.
20 “None of the injuries inflicted”: Gerster, Recollections of a New York Surgeon, 206.
21 “ignorance is Bliss”: Quoted in Herr, “Ignorance Is Bliss,” 460.
22 Bliss, however, refused: Rutkow, James A. Garfield, 128.
23 “Statement of the Services Rendered”: Bliss, Statement of the Services Rendered by the Surgeons in the Case of the Late President Garfield, 10–11.
24 “so greatly impaired”: Ibid., 7.
25 Seven years later: “At the Point of Death,” Washington Post, February 21, 1889.
26 “Now that Papa has gone”: Comer, Harry Garfield’s First Forty Years, 63.
27 “Had it not been that her children”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 107.
28 “armed defender”: Ibid., 109.
29 “not very good”: Ibid., 111.
30 She asked Joseph Stanley Brown: Ibid., 110.
31 The second floor of this wing: Presidential libraries would officially begin fifty-eight years later, in 1939, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s library.
32 “These are the last letters”: Shaw, Crete and James, 390.
33 “He has such poise and sanity”: Shaw, Lucretia, 116.
34 “Sometimes I feel that God”: Quoted in Feis, Mollie Garfield in the White House, 108.
35 “I believe I am in love”: Ibid., 110.
36 “a small stone”: Ibid., 113.
37 Three months later, Mollie and Joseph: Ibid., 116.
38 “It is now rendered quite certain”: Bell to Mabel Bell, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
39 “This is most mortifying to me”: Ibid.
40 “An old idea”: Bell, “Volta Lab Notes,” October 25, 1881.
41 In the years to come: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 348.
42 In 1886, Captain Arthur Keller: Ibid., 400.
43 “door through which I should pass”: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, viii.
44 Bell would live to be seventy-five years old: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 491.
45 “I must confess that”: “Lister Was the Father of Antiseptic Surgery,” New York Times, September 4, 1927.
46 “the greatest conqueror of disease”: “Lister and Surgery,” New York Times, October 5, 1913.
47 “My lord”: Keen, “Before and After Lister,” Science, June 18, 1915, 885. Keen attributes the quote to Thomas Bayard, as do several other sources, but Joseph Hodges Choate was the American ambassador to Great Britain in 1902. Bayard had died four years earlier.
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