![]() ![]() He was prone to infection just one example, in June 1961, amid a showdown with the Soviet Union over Berlin, Kennedy suffered a fever that hit 105 degrees and required cold sponge baths to cool down. He suffered from terrible, recurring back pain, had a herniated disc removed in 1944, and underwent risky spinal-fusion surgery in 1957. He had Addison’s disease, a failure of the adrenal glands that had a fatal prognosis until doctors discovered cortisone as a treatment, coincidentally around the time Kennedy was diagnosed in 1947. Throughout most of his life, JFK was far sicker than he ever let on publicly. ![]() Kennedy on the 50 th anniversary of his death, here’s one that neither his fans nor his detractors appreciate fully enough, because it was so secret for so long: The man was a pharmaceutical miracle, with his own speed connection on the Upper East Side. ![]()
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