Posted on 02/22/2018 5:54:31 PM PST by bitt
...."Last year, my reader sunnydaysall, from BrainHavenNet, posted Dr Christopher’s Herbal Legacy Newsletter from July 7, 2017, ‘The Untimely Death of America’.
It is well worth reading, especially for those interested in natural remedies.
One would have thought that George Washington would have had the finest medical care available. It seems he did in principle, but, judging from his final days, not in practice.
A summary and excerpts follow, emphases mine."...
(Excerpt) Read more at churchmousec.wordpress.com ...
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Back then, you were probably better off not going to a doctor.
“Finest medical care” as in bleeding him repeatedly and poisoning him with mercury. Yeah, it must have been amazing when anyone survived the “medicine” of that age.
God rest his soul.
Well, “the finest medical care available” wasn’t all that fine in 1799, so he died unpleasantly.
“Back then, you were probably better off not going to a doctor. “
Had the Hillabeast won, the situation would be the same.
Except for Hollywood, Washington, and of course, the witch who was president.
They essentially bled Washington to death. He was utterly so anemic he could barely move oxygen to his vital organs.
In 100 years, they’ll be writing about how we all died unpleasantly in this day and age.
If this had happened today, I would have said it was a murderous plot. Nowadays, we cannot accept anything as it appears.
GW would have had opium available to him. The federal government did not concern itself with such matters in those days.
In 250 years, they'll be saying the same thing about now.
They essentially bled Washington to death. He was utterly so anemic he could barely move oxygen to his vital organs.
Precisely.
“Well, “the finest medical care available” wasn’t all that fine in 1799, so he died unpleasantly.”
Maybe not. See John Wayne’s last film “The Shootist”. Yeah, it took place a century later, but medicine was still pretty primitive.
I think he also had a horse doctor in attendance.
Washington liked to keep records, and he regularly checked his own pulse as he lay dying.
He was placed in two coffins, which were then encased in lead. About twenty or thirty years later, when a new burial chamber was constructed, his coffin was opened to verify it was him. He was extremely preserved and recognizable, but his hair was gone. He probably is still preserved very well.
Incredible story. Thanks be to God that medicine has improved.
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In two hundred and fifty years they might be laughing that we had no choice to die. :-)
I liken chemotherapy to bleeding a patient with leaches. It might sound ‘good’ to our understanding of medicine, but it sure seems like killing a fly on a plate glass window with a sledgehammer.
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