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How George Washington died — horribly
Churchmouse Campanologist ^ | 2/19/2018 | Churchmouse Campanologist

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 ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Science
KEYWORDS: 1stinwarpeacehearts; ancientnavigation; georgewashington; godsgravesglyphs; health; navigation; thegeneral; therevolution
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To: Salvation

Probably the most important development in medicine has been antibiotics.

But we’re overusing them.


21 posted on 02/22/2018 6:44:52 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Joe 6-pack
In 250 years, they'll be saying the same thing about now.

Yep.

22 posted on 02/22/2018 6:47:08 PM PST by fso301
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To: Enchante

“Yeah, it must have been amazing when anyone survived the “medicine” of that age.”

We are blessed to live in the modern era, where doctors are just the third leading cause of death.


23 posted on 02/22/2018 6:47:21 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Barron Trump, time-traveling back from the future, to help his dad fight the deep state.)
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To: Ken H

GW would have had opium available to him. The federal government did not concern itself with such matters in those days.
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And the finest Whiskey and Rum in the colonies... made right there at Mt. Vernon.


24 posted on 02/22/2018 6:48:51 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtllgbUiTt0


25 posted on 02/22/2018 6:50:14 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I am well aware of that. I do not respond to any of the ‘cillins. And I am allergic to neomycin.


26 posted on 02/22/2018 6:51:45 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: bitt
It is the curse of celebrity. The more famous you are, the more doctors will crowd around with their latest quack nostrums to cure you and gain some share of your fame.

Example: President Garfield would have probably survived his gun shot if it hadn't been for 20 'doctors' sticking their fingers in the hole, and pontificating...

27 posted on 02/22/2018 6:54:34 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I don’t know where you got that nonsense, but contemporary medicine saves lots of lives. My life has been saved twice by doctors, from conditions which would have been fatal decades ago.


28 posted on 02/22/2018 6:55:01 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I don’t know where you got that nonsense, but contemporary medicine saves lots of lives. My life has been saved twice by doctors, from conditions which would have been fatal decades ago.


29 posted on 02/22/2018 6:55:01 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: bitt

I don’t doubt that there’s a great deal of current medical practice that will appear barbaric and even stupid 200 years hence, too, particularly in dealing with cancer.


30 posted on 02/22/2018 6:55:03 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: bitt

IIRC, he went out in bad weather that day and died that night. The person there said he died peacefully, without any sign of distress.


31 posted on 02/22/2018 6:56:58 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Tallguy

tell that to the people who it actually saved.


32 posted on 02/22/2018 6:59:18 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: jonascord
But he got a nice tomb out of it.


33 posted on 02/22/2018 7:07:37 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Salvation

I appear to be allergic to penicillin.

Lately I’ve used oil of oregano for things like oncoming colds and what seemed to be a gum or tooth issue. Passion Flower and Valerian for sleep, Oscillococcinum for onset of colds/flu. All work pretty well, for me.

My brother recently found the Boiron Calendula cream as good as the pharmaceutical stuff, for his dry/itchy skin.

Some of the natural stuff works, and of course it is always going to be individual. But if TPTB never put the effort into studying something, they can always say “There is no proof...” - and that goes down as if they had said “Doesn’t work”.

(Having said all of that, sound nutrition and a temperate life in all respects probably represent the best way to avoid health issues.)


34 posted on 02/22/2018 7:08:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Enchante

“I don’t know where you got that nonsense...”

The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Glad you were saved. Many are not so fortunate.


35 posted on 02/22/2018 7:14:41 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Barron Trump, time-traveling back from the future, to help his dad fight the deep state.)
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To: Shadowstrike

Killed my father.


36 posted on 02/22/2018 7:17:53 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: odawg
He was extremely preserved and recognizable, but his hair was gone. He probably is still preserved very well.

Possibly the mercury at work. It might have acted as a preservative. I know there have been cases of arsenic poisoning where the body wouldn't decay because the arsenic killed any bacteria that tried to grow there.

Just a hypothesis, though.
37 posted on 02/22/2018 7:26:19 PM PST by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: Chainmail

I think hands down, our best president. No question.

I think a couple may fight hard for second place, but for me, best president is George Washington, no one comes close. Not after all he did, and could have done for himself, but did not do.


38 posted on 02/22/2018 7:37:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Oil of Oregano can kill off any bacteria. Genuine Manuka honey as well.


39 posted on 02/22/2018 7:38:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I recall that you told me about Manuka honey before - what’s special about it?


40 posted on 02/22/2018 7:41:33 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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