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Benjamin Rush
(4 Jan 1746 - 19 Apr 1813)
American physician , remembered as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the most prominent U.S. physician. He was the first professor of medical chemistry in America, and active in combatting the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s. Rush is regarded as the father of American psychiatry, and his work, Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812) was the first book for this discipline published in American.
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Science Quotes by Benjamin Rush (2)
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.
— Benjamin Rush
From a public lecture by Rush. Quoted by Isaac Jennings, in Medical Reform; a Treatise on Man's Physical Being and Disorders (1847), 33.
The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
— Benjamin Rush
Quoted by Isaac Jennings, in Medical Reform; a Treatise on Man's Physical Being and Disorders (1847), 33.
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