Benjamin Rush

NOUN
  1. physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)
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  • Dr. Benjamin Rush, also known as the father of American psychiatry, was among the first to promote the notion that alcoholism was a disease.
  • In 1784, Benjamin Rush, America’s founding doctor, published An Inquiry into the Effects of Spiritous Liquors, which became one of the most important of the Founding Fathers’ many antipleasure manifestoes during the early national period. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Dr. Benjamin Rush, also known as the father of American psychiatry, was among the first to promote the notion that alcoholism was a disease.
  • Humane physician Benjamin Rush also thought that his presence would violate Protestant principles.
  • Anglo-Saxons, the lungs are inadequate to the task of depurating the superabundant blood, which is thrown upon them at the age of maturity, unless aided by an occasional blood-letting, active and abundant exercise of the muscles in the open air, and a nutritious diet, as advised by the American Hippocrates, Benjamin Rush. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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