Health and Medicine

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Title Daily Entry
19 March 1791

GW at Philadelphia.

16 February 1791

GW at Philadelphia. GW paid his dentist John Greenwood twenty dollars for the repair of his false teeth.

31 January 1791

GW at Philadelphia. British historian William Gordon wrote GW a letter expressing his fire and water safety concerns for the nation’s permanent capital.

25 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. He found a fox while hunting but did not kill it.  Doctor William Rumney again visited the Sick--most likely slaves--and returned for dinner.

24 January 1775

GW at Mount Vernon. Doctor William Rumney “visited the Sick”--most likely slaves.  Rumney returned for dinner and stayed overnight.  Alexander Ross came only for dinner.

18 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he had “an Aching tooth, and swelled and inflamed Gum.” GW wrote to former Lt. Col.

17 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary, “At home all day--not well.”

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