Dr. Benjamin Rush the founding father who healed a wounded nation
Ninety percent of Americans could not vote and did not enjoy rights to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness when our Founding Fathers proclaimed, "all men are created equal." Alone among those who signed the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush heard the cries of those other, d...
| Main Author: | Unger, Harlow G., 1931- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Da Capo Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Da Xapo press edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The making of a physician
- The making of a patriot
- Broken by a cannon ball
- The Revolution is not over
- My friends in jails
- Murder by war
- Hundred days of doom
- "You cannot die now, doctor!"
- Bleed, bleed, bleed
- Father of psychiatry
- On the causes of death
- Healing the last wound
- Post mortem
- Appendix A. Selected writings of Benjamin Rush by topic
- Appendix B. Medical inquiries and observations by Benjamin Rush
- Appendix C. Essays: literary, moral & philosophical
- Appendix D. Thomas Jefferson's syllabus of an estimate of the merit of the doctrines of Jesus, compared with those of others.