Medical Museum Science Café, featuring author Matthew Algeo

Join the National Museum of Health and Medicine and author Matthew Algeo for a discussion about public perception and presidential health. In "The President is a Sick Man," Algeo offers the first full account of a monumental political scandal that shook the Gilded Age. In July 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a yacht and seemingly vanished for five days. But what the American public didn't know was that a team of surgeons had been assembled on the boat to remove a cancerous growth from Cleveland's jaw (the Museum has histological slides with samples of the tumor). Copies of the book will be available for purchase; a book signing will follow.