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26 April 2012

Bloodletting and Malariatherapy: Treatment Methods of the Past

By Max Sherman

Those interested in the history of medicine should read the details surrounding the therapy rendered to President George Washington by his physicians in December 1799. This article explores purging, bloodletting and other methods employed to help treat Washington, which actually hastened his death.

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