Thomas Jefferson suffered from debilitating headaches throughout his life. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Jefferson and His Time, author Dumas Malone recounted one episode that delayed Jefferson’s return to his beloved Monticello following Congress’s adjournment in 1807. “Though somewhat less severe than others he had endured, this lasted about three weeks, keeping him in a darkened room nearly all day when at its worst and, as he complained, leaving him only an hour or two for work.”
Jefferson was no slacker. And neither are the millions...
