Tell about George Washington ?
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:48 am
So, a law was passed to make Washington the highest ranking U.S. officer of all time: General of the Armies of the United States. Nobody will ever outrank him.
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7. HE MADE A PRETTY HEFTY SALARY.
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According to the Christian Science Monitor, in 1789, Washington's presidential salary was 2 percent of the total U.S. budget.
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8. EVEN SO, HE HAD SOME CASH FLOW PROBLEMS.
Washington actually had to borrow money to attend his own first inauguration.
Washington actually had to borrow money to attend his own first inauguration.
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9. HE WAS ONE OF THE SICKLIEST PRESIDENTS IN U.S. HISTORY.
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Throughout his life, Washington suffered from a laundry list of ailments: diphtheria, tuberculosis, smallpox, dysentery, malaria, quinsy (tonsillitis), carbuncle, pneumonia, and epiglottitis—to name a few.
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10. HE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE DIED AS A RESULT OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.
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On the day he died, Washington was treated with four rounds of bloodletting, which removed 5 pints of blood from his body.
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It seems that it proved to be too much. From the New York Times:
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On Washington's fateful day, Albin Rawlins, one of his overseers and a bloodletter, was summoned. Washington bared his arm.
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The overseer had brought his lancet and made an incision. Washington said, ''Don't be afraid.''
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:51 am
That day, Rawlins drew 12 ounces of blood, then 18 ounces, another 18 ounces and a final 32 ounces into a porcelain bleeding bowl.
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After the fourth bloodletting, the patient improved slightly and was able to swallow. By about 10 p.m., his condition deteriorated, but he was still rational enough to whisper burial instructions to Col. Tobias Lear, his secretary.
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At 10:20 p.m., Dr. James Craik, 69, an Edinburgh-trained physician who had served with Washington in the French and Indian Wars, closed Washington's eyes.
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Another Edinburgh-trained physician, Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown, 52, was also present.
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The third physician, Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick, 37, who had been appointed coroner the previous year, stopped the clock in Washington's bedroom at that moment.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:52 am
It is well-known that Washington had no children of his own. In 2007, John K. Amory of the University of Washington School of Medicine proposed that Washington was infertile.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:52 am
Armory goes through a number of possible reasons for Washington’s infertility, including an infection caused by his tuberculosis.
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“Classic studies of soldiers with tuberculous pleurisy during World War II demonstrated that two thirds developed chronic organ tuberculosis within 5 years of their initial infection. Infection of the epididymis or testes is seen in 20% of these individuals and frequently results in infertility.”
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11. HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN INFERTILE.
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12. WASHINGTON'S BODY WAS ALMOST BURIED IN THE CAPITOL.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:53 am
Washington requested that he be buried at Mount Vernon, and his family upheld his request, despite repeated pleas by Congress.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:53 am
They wanted to put his body underneath a marble statue in the Capitol.
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13. HE WAS NOT VERY RELIGIOUS.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:53 am
According to Washington biographer Edward Lengel, "He was a very moral man. He was a very virtuous man, and he watched carefully everything he did.
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