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ordeal. Mr. Lear recorded these treatments for the man wo had, up until that morning, been in perfect health:
—molasses, vinegar and butter put in his mouth, repeatedly, even when the General gagged and could not swallow.
—blood taken from his arm a total of four different times in less than ten hours, an average of about a pint each time even though, as Mr. Lear observed, “no effect was procured by it.”
—potions of vinegar, sage tea, calomel and tartar administered, even though, as Lear said again, he could not swallow.
When Washington could talk, he, in effect, asked the doctors to leave him alone ("Let me go off quietly) and then asked if he had taken care of everything that would be necessary when he died. Lear assured him that all was in order, but that he certainly was not dying. According to Lear, “He observed, smiling, that he certainly was.”
And, as usual, the General was right. So it was that he died on a Saturday, December 14th, 1799, less than a day after he became sick, with a sore throat.
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