Memoir on the last sickness of General Washington and its treatment by the attendant physicians.

  • Jackson, James, 1777-1867.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Memoir on the last sickness of General Washington and its treatment by the attendant physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would lie have consented to a copious bleeding ? We think not. Here we see the real difficulty. At the time when the danger is manifested, the disease is not strictly new; it has not just commenced. In looking over the histories of cases of acute laryngitis we find that the disease, under the form of a hoarse cold, has existed from a few hours to a few days, before it arrives at the state when danger to life is suspected. It can- not be said that the bleeding, at that stage of the disease, can be relied on, as it might have been in the very commence- ment. Yet this remedy, even then, af- fords a chance of relief, and the more when the disease has not remained long in the first stage. In Washington's case the first stage was of short duration. Bleeding was resorted to early, by his own direction. But that bleeding was