Benjamin Rush
Subtitle: revolutionary gadfly
By: David Freeman Hawke
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Indianapolis; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 490
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Rush, Benjamin, -- 1746-1813
Notes: Bibliography: p. [399]-454.
Table of contents: title: Starting out.; title: Youth; title: Apprenticeship; title: Edinburgh; title: London and Paris; title: Fledgling physician; title: Politics intrude; title: In the midst of a revolution.; title: The revolution begins; title: Pennsylvania politics; title: In and out of Congress; title: "Here ends the chapter"; title: In and out of the army; title: Back in Philadelphia; title: "All will end well"; title: The spirit of peace; title: A multitude of causes.; title: The birth of "our brat"; title: Focus on the backcountry; title: Reforms in physic; title: "Through a sea of blunders"; title: Reforms in the cause of virtue; title: "Only a spectator of public measures"; title: Appendix : Directions for the treatment of such disorders as are most common in Pennsylvania, and for such complaints as are common in all families