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'''Benjamin Rush''' (1745-1813) was a colonial physician known as the "Father of American Medicine." He signed the [[Declaration of Independence]]. He served as the Surgeon General of the [[Continental Army]], and he opened the first free medical clinic at the Pennsylvania Hospital.
'''Benjamin Rush''' (1745-1813) was a colonial physician known as the "Father of American Medicine." He was [[Founding Father]] who signed the [[Declaration of Independence]], he served as the Surgeon General of the [[Continental Army]], and he opened the first free medical clinic at the Pennsylvania Hospital, and made significant contributions to the philosophy of the [[American Enlightenment]].
He also founded the Philadelphia Bible Society and was an abolitionist who founded the Society for the Abolition of Slavery.
He also founded the Philadelphia Bible Society and was an abolitionist who founded the Society for the Abolition of Slavery.
Raised in northeast Philadelphia, Rush's father was a farmer and gunsmith who died when Benjamin was only six years old. His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery. For five years Benjamin attended the West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland, and at age 13 was admitted as a junior. He graduated at age 14 as its youngest graduate ever, having already mastered its 5-year curriculum that required fluency in [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]].
Raised in northeast Philadelphia, Rush's father was a farmer and gunsmith who died when Benjamin was only six years old. His mother supported her family by running a Philadelphia grocery. For five years Benjamin attended the West Nottingham Academy in Rising Sun, Maryland, and at age 13 was admitted as a junior. He graduated at age 14 as its youngest graduate ever, having already mastered its 5-year curriculum that required fluency in [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]].
Rush did not attend the [[Constitutional Convention] and did not sign the [[U.S. Constitution]] draft there.
Rush Medical College in Chicago, like the city itself, this received its charter in March of 1837.
==Works==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=autYAAAAYAAJ An oration, delivered before the American Philosophical Society: held in Philadelphia on the 27th of February, 1786; containing an enquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=AHIFAAAAQAAJ Medical inquiries and observations]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=xtUKAAAAIAAJ Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical]
* [[A Defence of the Use of the Bible in Schools]]
==Quotes==
Rush felt that the United States was the work of God:<ref>To Elias Boudinot on July 9, 1788. Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, ed., (Princeton, NJ: American Philosophical; Society, 1951), Vol. I, p. 475.</ref>
Rush felt that the United States was the work of God:<ref>To Elias Boudinot on July 9, 1788. Letters of Benjamin Rush, L. H. Butterfield, ed., (Princeton, NJ: American Philosophical; Society, 1951), Vol. I, p. 475.</ref>
<blockquote>"The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. ... Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."</blockquote>
== References ==
== References ==