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Found an article of successful treatment from 1925, but I'm not shelling out $40 to read the full text: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/233749

From the abstract, the patient was admitted in '37. The article was published in '41. My guess would be sometime in '37-8 unless someone else did one before then that didn't make the journals.

Definitely better. (Sorry about the two rapid fire edits. Fat fingers hit "post reply" instead of the edit box.)

Liquid diet. The stomach mostly breaks up what you swallow into smaller pieces. The small intestine is where nutrients get absorbed. The large intestine turns what's left over into poop.

Gangrene on the stomach lining got McKinley. Modern medicine definitely would have been able to save him. I'm not sure when that would have been detectable. By '43 removing his stomach and pumping him full of penicillin would been possible. EDIT: Lincoln died 8hrs later. Kenedy died 26hrs...