For many years, no one explored the president's death any further than the "official" diagnosis. According to Priceonomics, in the 1980s a retired university professor decided to research the possibility that President Taylor had been poisoned. Clara Rising looked closely at the symptoms that President Taylor exhibited in the days leading up to his death. Some of these included severe stomach pain, cramping, nausea, and diarrhea, and she noted that they are almost identical to symptoms of arsenic poisoning. She managed to get the deceased president's body exhumed for testing, which showed trace amounts of arsenic in his system, but apparently not enough to kill him.
While the possible poisoning of Zachary Taylor has largely been put to rest, there still is not exactly a fully definitive answer as to what caused his unexpected death. The Kentucky State Medical Examiner at the time agreed that the president died of a natural disease, but could not specify which one, because many diseases could have produced similar symptoms.
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