"rather crude ancestor of the vaccine. 

The source is a biography of Louis XVI ""Louis XVI le Roi Bienfaisant"" (Jean de Viguerie, on the various, and often contradictory, influences of the french government prior to the revolution), where a section is devoted to the innoculation of the royal family, and makes note of how the intendant of Franche Comte had financed physicians to do it through his province, and how it was later used by Washington on his continental army.  

The truth
He actually died on December 31. It even says so in a book that I have!  

 Facts About George Washington 

1)George Washington owned over 33,000 acres of land.
2) Washington lived in NEW YORK AND PHILDELPHIA DURING HIS PREIDENCY —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.230.187.220  .

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