Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2021 May 18;72(10):1850-1853. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1324.
George Washington's medical history has been recounted so many times and with such consistency that it seems that nothing new remains to be said about the panoply of disorders that plagued him during his life. The same can be said for the particular one that carried him off at age 67. We know that he had small pox, dysentery, recurrent attacks of malaria, and a host of other infections during his long and spectacularly productive career. His teeth were a source of unrelenting distress despite his assiduous attention to dental hygiene; and terminally, he developed a rapidly progressive upper respiratory infection, which killed him in little more than a day and a half despite the best medical care available.
乔治·华盛顿的病史已经被多次叙述，而且内容非常一致，以至于似乎没有什么新的内容可以补充到困扰他一生的各种疾病中。他在 67 岁去世的那个疾病也是如此。我们知道，在他漫长而辉煌的职业生涯中，他患有天花、痢疾、疟疾反复发作和许多其他感染。尽管他非常注重口腔卫生，但他的牙齿仍然是一个持续不断的困扰；最后，他患上了一种快速发展的上呼吸道感染，尽管可以获得最好的医疗护理，但他还是在不到一天半的时间内去世了。
