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On December 14, 1799, George Washington died at his home after a brief illness and after losing about 40 percent of his blood. So what killed the 67-year-old former President?
Watch Dr. Markel discuss the details of President George Washington’s death on the PBS NewsHour. Dr. Craik ordered another bleeding.
Learn the gruesome details of President George Washington’s final hours on the 215th anniversary of his death. The retired commander-in-chief woke up at 2 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1799, with a sore...
Dr. Craik arrived at nine in the morning, examined Washington, and produced a blister on his throat in an attempt to balance the fluids in Washington's body. Craik bled Washington a second time and ordered a solution of vinegar and sage tea prepared for gargling.
In all, Washington was bled four times, losing more than 80 ounces of his blood -- or roughly 40% of his body’s supply. It didn’t work, causing the doctors to become increasingly desperate in...
Over the course of his illness, writes Wallenborn, he’d been bled more than once–another common remedy of the time– and lost about five pints of blood. He died that night, between ten and eleven...
Doctors continued the process of bloodletting and Spanish fly throughout the day, but to no avail; Washington died shortly after 8 p.m. Physicians have disagreed about the cause of death, but...
Leeches likely even contributed to the death of U.S. President George Washington, who requested to be bled while suffering from a throat infection; when the overseer of his plantation used leeches to remove 12 to 14 ounces of his blood, Washington requested he remove more.
Rush’s influence led many doctors to adopt his bloodletting methods for a wide range of illnesses, including those who attended President Washington on the day he died. But not all were convinced that bloodletting was an effective therapy.
The retired commander-in-chief woke up at 2 a.m. on Dec. 14, 1799, with a sore throat. After a series of medical procedures, including the draining of nearly 40 percent of hi...more. Learn the...