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→Medical career: Unfortunately, Benjamin Rush was an advocate of the mistaken theory of arterial localization of disease, which led to overuse of now-discredited bloodletting, and also calomel (mercurous chloride), to combat the yellow fever
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→Quotes: wikify
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→Early life: His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery, and homeschooled Benjamin until age eight, when he was enrolled along with his brother in their uncle Samuel Finley's West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland.
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Rush did not attend the Constitutional Convention, but he and James Wilson encouraged their state of Pennsylvania to quickly ratify the new U.S. Constitution, the second state to do so.
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Rush rejected the liberal portions of the European Enlightenment movement.
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