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See also:RUSH, See also:BENJAMIN (1745–1813) , See also:American physician, was See also:born in Byberry township, near See also:Philadelphia, on a See also:homestead founded by his grandfather, a Quaker gunsmith, who had followed See also:Penn from See also:England in 1683. In 176o he graduated at See also:Princeton. After serving an See also:apprenticeship of six years with a See also:doctor in Philadelphia, he went for two years to See also:Edinburgh, where he attached himself chiefly to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cullen. He took his M.D. degree there in 1768, spent a See also:year more in the hospitals of See also:London and See also:Paris, and began practice in Philadelphia at the See also:age of twenty-four, undertaking at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:chemistry class at the Philadelphia medical See also:college. He was a friend of See also:Franklin, a member of See also:Congress for the See also:state of See also:Pennsylvania in 1776, and one of those who signed the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence the same year. He had already written on the Test See also:Laws, " Sermons to the See also:Rich," and on See also:negro See also:slavery; and in 1774 he started along with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Pemberton the first See also:anti-slavery society in See also:America, and was its secretary for many years. In 1787 he was a member of the Pennsylvania See also:convention which adopted the Federal constitution, and thereafter he retired from public See also:life, and gave himself up wholly to medical practice. In 1789 he exchanged his chemistry lecture-See also:ship for that of the theory and practice of physic; and when the medical college, which he had helped to found, was absorbed by the university of Pennsylvania in 1791 he became See also:professor of the institutes of See also:medicine and of clinical practice, succeeding in 1796 to the See also:chair of the theory and practice of medicine. He gained See also:great See also:credit when the yellow See also:fever devastated Philadelphia, in 1793, by his assiduity in visiting the sick, and by his bold and apparently successful treatment of the disease by bloodletting. He died in Philadelphia on the 19th of See also:April 1813, after a five days' illness from typhus fever. His son See also:Richard is separately noticed. Another son,- James (1786–1869), was a physician, and author of various books, such as See also:Philosophy of the Human See also:Voice (1827) and See also:Analysis of the Human See also:Intellect (1865).
Benjamin Rush's writings covered an immense range of subjects, including See also:language, the study of Latin and See also:Greek, the moral See also:faculty, See also:capital See also:punishment, medicine among the American See also:Indians, See also:maple See also:sugar, the blackness of the negro, the cause of See also:animal life, See also:tobacco smoking, spirit drinking, as well as many more strictly professional topics. His last See also:work was an elaborate See also:treatise on the Diseases of the Mind (1812). He is best known by the five volumes of Medical Inquiries and Observations, which he brought out at intervals from 1789 to 1798 (two later See also:editions revised by the author).
See eulogy by his friend Dr See also:David Hosack (Essays, i., New See also:York, 1824), with See also:biographical details taken from a See also:letter of Rush to See also:President See also:John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams; also references in the See also:works of Thacker, See also:Gross and See also:Bowditch on the See also:history of medicine in America. His See also:part in the yellow fever controversies is indicated by La See also:Roche (Yellow Fever in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1855) and by See also:Bancroft (See also:Essay on the Yellow Fever, London, 1811). His services as an abolitionist See also:pioneer are recorded in See also:Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the See also:African Slave See also:Trade.
End of Article: RUSH, BENJAMIN (1745–1813)
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