The following excerpt is from an AP article about the gravesite of the little-known doctor who cared for President Lincoln’s feet.
LONDON — He may just be a footnote to history, but Dr. Isachar Zacharie is having a posthumous mini-moment, thanks to the Hollywood-sparked surge of interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Zacharie was buried in London’s famed Highgate Cemetery in 1900, but he is only being added to the cemetery guide Friday, joining such notables as communist philosopher Karl Marx, novelist George Eliot and punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren as a likely draw for visitors to the north London landmark.
Zacharie’s claim to fame? He was Lincoln’s foot doctor. And a good one at that, if the president’s signed endorsement can be taken at face value.
“Dr. Zacharie has operated on my feet with great success, and considerable addition to my comfort,” the 16th president of the United States wrote in 1862, when the United States was gripped by civil war.
Read the full article in the February 28, 2013 edition of The Register Citizen.
Click here to see another good AP article at the Feb. 28, 2013 CBS News website.
