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Originally Posted by aegsm76
The first sentence was an attention grabber. Please read the entire article for a better picture.
Also, the below was taken from some different websites.
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That opening statement was unnecessarily inflammatory. Thanks for the additional info.
I myself was skeptical about the claim of "implanting" teeth into humans in the 18th Century. I guess it would take a Frenchman to try. Can you imagine the procedure? Ouch!
And then, it only last a year, two at the most. I'd rather have a "slave" chew my food for me, but even then, fasting would be almost continuous. yecch!
"Martha! Get another jar of apple sauce out, will ya! And mash these 'taters more finely!"
Washington died after being famously "bled." He arrived home, cold and wet, ate dinner in his wet clothes and went to bed. He woke up with a nasty fever and Martha called a doctor. Before the doctor could even get there, Washington had someone "bleed" him to "treat" the fever.
When the doctor arrived he bled Washington right away himself. A bit later Washington was bled again because the first bleedings failed to cure the fever for some reason. He died of "unknown causes" later that morning. Tobias Lear's eyewitness account of Washington's death is republished
here.