This is the Tom Hartman program.

Here's the thing.

Let me just tell you the George Washington part,

and then I'll tell you the American Corporation part.

Back in the day... the American Corporation part.

Back in the day, actually back in 750 something, 1751, October November of 1751, George Washington and his older brother Lawrence traveled to Barbados.

George got sick. Started with a headache, then a fever, he felt malaise, when his morning routine getting out of

bed was curtailed with a severe backache, anything like he'd experienced before.

He had a chill running through his body, which was unusual given that it was very warm in Barbados.

And then the rash started.

And eventually, the rash covered his whole entire body. He was 19 years old. He was on an

adventure and he had smallpox, George Washington. Now you see the paintings of

him, you don't see the Pac Marks, but he was severely

POCS marked, as were many of the people of that era.

And those Pac Marks, while the painters didn't put them in, those marks were actually a sign of

employability. Because once you've had smallpox, you can't get it again you have lifelong immunity.

George Washington on November 16th 1751 19 year old George Washington writes in

his diary I was strongly attacked by the smallpox. And he was confined

25 days with the smallpox confined to his house and the initial symptoms got

worse and worse until he finally broke his fever and came back out of it.

But 25 days he was sick and the techniques that they used to help him were to bleed the patient

when the fever was high, purge and bleed during the second fever and employ methods to decrease the Fenn, Pox Americana, the great smallpox epidemic of 1775 to 82.

...