I just posted the second half of a review about Candice Millard’s book, “Destiny of the Republic, A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President.” D. Willard Bliss was the doctor who took control of President James A. Garfield after he had been shot by a madman. Bliss probed to try to find the bullet with unsterilized fingers on several occasions. Garfield died from the massive infections introduced by the inept medical treatment. The author observes that the expression “ignorance is bliss” could have been applied to describe Dr. Bliss. According to Reference.com, the phrase came from the poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” by Thomas Gray. The quote is “Thought would destroy their paradise. No more. Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”