And then when that didn't make him better they drained more and more. they drained, you know, like 40 ounces of blood from him. And what they did was they started bleeding him, which was the standard procedure for people who were unwell at that time. Three doctors were called in, and they all came and looked into him. And then as a result of that, he got some kind of a throat infection - really probably no more than just a bad cold.īut then his doctors got hold of him, because he was a person of such eminence. And when he came home, unwisely, he ate dinner in in damp clothes. And he'd been out surveying the plantation on horseback one day in winter and it was raining, and he got very wet. And he'd only just started enjoying his retirement. He'd retired, you know, he'd won the Revolutionary War and then served two heroic terms as president, and all he really wanted to do was just retire to Mount Vernon and have a quiet life.
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