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'Medicine* May Have
Killed Washington
George Washington died 150 years ago yesterday — a sudden victim of acute laryngitis and carelessness about bis o^n health.
His death at 67 probably -was hastened by rigorous medical treatment. It included four blood lettings; a gargle of molasses, vinegar and ‘batter, which almost suffocated him; blisters of eantharides (dried beetles)- applied to his throatf and cataplasms (poultices) of wheat bran on his legs.
However, modern doctors have said that Washington apparently hada a streptococci infection of the throat which might not’‘have responded even to the most efficaceous treatment. They say his physicians carried out the accepted, if crude, practices of their day.
Washington’s last illness was very brief.
He was caught in rain, hail and snow while riding over his Mount Vernon farms and stayed out in the storm for several hours.
He had a sore throat the following day but in the afternoon went out in the snow to mark some trees for cutting. He became very ill t early the next
morning, had great^difficultjr-in ■breathing andspefckings. arrinditd^ —at—H>i20 that night, December. 14, 1799. Diary Records Last Day
The diary of Tobias Lear, Washington’s secretary, tells of
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