Title: Letters of Benjamin Rush /
Authors: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.; Butterfield, L. H. 1909-1982; Butterfield, L. H. 1909-1982,; Butterfield, L. H. 1909-1982,; Butterfield, L. H. 1909-1982.; Milwaukee Academy of Medicine.
Publisher: Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press,
Year: 1951
Subjects: Rush, Benjamin, Correspondence.; Rush, Benjamin,; History, 18th Century; Physicians; Physicians Biography; Physicians Correspondence; Physicians United States Correspondence.; History, 18th Century United States biography.; United States; Philadelphia (Pa.); United States.
Abstract: Here, in two volumes, is a collection of over 650 letters (two-thirds of them never before printed) from the pen of Benjamin Rush. A signer of the Declaration of Independence and the 18th century's most distinguished American physician, Rush was also a politician, pamphleteer, social reformer, chemistry professor, psychiatrist, college founder, church founder, and "enthusiastic lifelong student of everything under the sun." -from dust jacket.
Contents: v.1. 1761-1792.--v.2. 1793-1813.