Posted on 08/08/2010 3:19:08 PM PDT by barmag25
"It is with inexpressible grief, that I have to announce to you the death of the great and good General Washington. He died last evening, between 10 and 11 o'clock, after a short illness of about 24 hours. His disorder was an inflammatory fore throat, which proceeded from a cold, of which he made but little complaint on Friday..."
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We had a political candidate whose signs are still everywhere around here. I always thought of that and chuckled whenever I saw them- they read
‘FIMIAN’.
I thought he’d have been the candidate most likely to employ the political equivalent of gorilla warfare. Or throw some suitcases around for an American Tourister commercial.
Or something.
LMAO....
/johnny
Sad news, but Julie Banderas is back from maternity leave and looks Deliciously thick and engorged
Well Johnny, thank you for the brief history lesson.
I will, however, hold the memory of General Washington in high and respectful regard.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh!
/johnny
You forgot... he blamed all of that on Bush. ;>)
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Part of the story of George Washington’s death originating from the attending physician’s notes:
http://www.pharmj.com/Editorial/20021221/christmas/doctors.html
The colleagues Craik had called in were Dr John Brown and Dr Elisha Dick, and Craik told them that he favoured another blood-letting. Brown supported him but Dick, more sensible and humane, opposed the idea, pointing out that three pints of blood had already been taken from a seriously ill patient. “He needs all his strength,” Dick cautioned, “and bleeding will diminish it.” But Dick was the junior of the three and was overruled. A further pint and a half of blood being drawn off, although the senior pro-bleeding doctors later had the honesty to admit that the procedure was “... without the smallest apparent alleviation of the disease”.
Washington, now suffering from a serious loss of blood as well as from the infection, might have benefited from a quiet regimen of rest and the administration of light nutrient foods, but heroic medicine demanded action, and so the tortures went on. The patient was given a dose of calomel — 10 grains (0.6g) — that would have been testing for a fit man, and several doses of tartar emetic, a nauseous antimony compound, in spite of the fact that there can have been nothing left in his stomach to vomit. He had already been subjected to blistering of the throat, another form of heroic assault where a drastic irritant was applied to the skin to create a blister, the idea being that as the blister swelled it drew off harmful elements from within. A vinegar poultice was now applied on top of the throat blister and blistering agents were strapped to the soles of his feet.
Washington tried several times to speak through the encumbrances at his throat, and when eventually he could make himself heard, the message was clear.
He wanted to be left to die in peace.
The kind of medical care we can all look forward to under Obamacare.
Yep, that is the only kind of medicine that we will be able to afford. They want us old duffers to expire anyway, we are not worth the air we breathe according to the Global Warming Crowd.
“In case it is not obvious, it is sore throat, not fore throat. That’s an old-time s that is printed as an f.”
Phew! So that old colonial newspaper I read really did mean “soreskin” ?
:—)
dvwjr
LOL
LOL
Is that what happened to her?
I was watching her and thinking “Did she get hotter or what!”
Yes. Why yes she did
It is with great sadness that the White House acknowledges the passing of the first predecessor to President Obama (mmmm , mmmm , mmmm). In addition to some military experience, George Washington was the symbolic founder of the Democratic Party and was an early supporter of social justice. He hated Republicans, who caused our current economic mess, and fought for the inclusion of many of our fundamental rights in the constitution, including separation of church and state and the right to privacy. Our grief may best be expressed by Vice President Biden who said “I remember listening to President Washington on the radio as a young law student while staying up late plagiarizing papers. His strong example of deficit spending was a powerful influence in my life and a guide from history to our current crisis, which Republicans caused.”
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