George Washington lived to be 67 years old.  In those 67 years, our first President had smallpox, bouts of malaria, multiple infections and abscesses, tuberculosis, dysentery and multiple common illnesses such as colds, the flu, etc.

But wait, there’s more!  By George Washington’s own account he survived “four Bullets through my Coat and two Horses shot under me”.

So what could possibly have killed the President after he had survived so much?  Doctors think Washington had acute epiglottitis, a life-threatening condition, caused by injury or infection, that caused his epiglottis to swell, blocking the airways to the lungs.  Read the entire article here!

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