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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    MEMOIR. The death of General Washington took place unexpectedly after an illness of less than forty-eight hours. He was in his sixty-eighth year, but had not begun to show much of the infirmities of age. Under the exposures of the active period of his life, and again shortly after he had engaged in the heavy cares and respon- sibilities of office in 1789, he had under- gone severe acute diseases; but it does not appear that he had been suffering under any wearing or wasting chronic malady. His faithful biographer, Mr, Sparks, says of him, that Since his re-