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Father of American Psychiatry
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]].
==Yellow Fever Outbreak==
==Medical career==
===Yellow Fever Outbreak===
During the [[Yellow fever epidemic of 1793]], Rush worked together with [[Absalom Jones]] and [[Richard Allen (bishop)|Richard Allen]] against the epidemic.
During the [[Yellow fever epidemic of 1793]], Rush worked together with [[Absalom Jones]] and [[Richard Allen (bishop)|Richard Allen]] against the epidemic.
===Father of American Psychiatry===
Benjamin Rush is generally referred to as the ''Father of American Psychiatry''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Cbh_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT426 Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician]</ref> He started the reform in treating the insane, not as demon-possessed individuals who should be chained and locked in cells, but people who simply had a disease of the brain.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eRFQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA162 American journal of psychiatry, Volume 64]</ref>
== Later Honor ==
== Later Honor ==
== References ==
== References ==
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