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George Washington
J. Jackson
Author/Artist: Wagstaff, C. E. and Andrews, J.
Type: Illustration
Topic: Portrait
Born in Massachuestts in 1777, James Jackson was a respected physician and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an early proponent of smallpox vaccination.
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Memoir on the last sickness of General Washington and its treatment by the attendant physicians.
In this memoir, James Jackson provides a medical analysis of the symptoms and treatments of George Washington's last illness. The work was written for a work by American politician and educator Edward Everett titled The Life of George Washington published in 1860.
