Letters.
By: Edited by L.H. Butterfield.
Contributors: Butterfield, L. H. 1909- ed.
Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society,; v. 30, pts. 1-2; Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ;; v. 30, pts. 1-2.
Publisher: Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: [Princeton]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1295
Subjects: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 -- Correspondence; Physicians -- United States -- Correspondence
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 1219-1229.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 1761-1792.; title: v. 2. 1793-1813.