It is of no consequence now to the principals. They are long gone. But the question remains something of a medical conundrum--just what caused George Washington's death?
There is no question that Washington suffered a sore throat. It started Dec. 13, 1799, the day after he had made a tour of his Mount Vernon, Va., estate in a freezing rain. But the took nothing for it, since, according to his secretary Tobias Lear, the general was always averse to nursing himself for minor ...