APPENDIX 



No. I. 



THE FOLLOWING IS AN OFFICIAL AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE ILLNESS AND DEATH OF 



THE ILLUSTRIOUS WASHINGTON, AS PUBLISHED BY THE PHYSICIANS WHO ATTENDED HIM. 



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SOME time in the night of Friday, the 13th December, having been exposed to a 

 rain on the preceding day, General WASHINGTON was attacked with an inflam 

 matory affection of the upper part of the windpipe, called in technical language, 

 cynanche trachealis. The disease commenced with a violent ague, accompanied 

 with some pain in the upper and fore part of the throat, a sense of stricture in the 

 same part, a cough, and a difficult rather than a painful deglutition, which were 

 soon succeeded by fever, and a quick and laborious respiration. The necessity of 

 blood-letting suggesting itself to the General, he procured a bleeder in the 

 neighbourhood, who took from his arm, in the night, twelve or fourteen ounces of 

 blood. He would not by any means be prevailed upon by the family to send for 

 the attending physician till the following morning, who arrived at Mount Vernon at 

 about eleven o clock on Saturday. Discovering the case to be highly alarming, 

 and foreseeing the fatal tendency of the disease, two consulting physicians were 

 immediately sent for, who arrived, one at half after three, the other at four o clock 

 in the afternoon. In the interim were employed two copious bleedings, a blister 

 was applied to the part affected, two moderate doses of calomel were given, and an 

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