Presidential Facts - The Death of George Washington

 

 

George Washington's doctors extensively used bloodletting to try to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat). Bloodletting was a common treatment to purge sicknesses out of the body.

When he lost more than half his blood supply, they finally stopped the bloodletting treatment.  By then he was in hypovolemic shock.

Washington died just a few hours later on February 22, 1799.

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