DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF WASHINGTON.


Commercial Advertiser, Vol III, No 691. New York: E. Belden & Co, December 27, 1799. Folio (548 x 358 mm). 4 pp. Some toning, old folds, ink note to p 1: "Gen Washington's Sickness & Death."DRAMATIC RECOUNTING OF THE FINAL MOMENTS AND DEATH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON FROM HIS ATTENDING PHYSICIAN. Nearly 3/4 of a column devoted to the account of Washington's personal physician James Craik, recounting the night of December 13th through the following day, including successive bleedings and doses of calomel, until "several hours before his death, after many attempts to be understood, [he] succeeded in expressing a desire that he be permitted to die without further interruption."DRAMATIC RECOUNTING OF THE FINAL MOMENTS AND DEATH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON FROM HIS ATTENDING PHYSICIAN. Nearly 3/4 of a column devoted to the account of Washington's personal physician James Craik, recounting the night of December 13th through the following day, including successive bleedings and doses of calomel, until "several hours before his death, after many attempts to be understood, [he] succeeded in expressing a desire that he be permitted to die without further interruption."