Benjamin Rush





Benjamin Rush

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Medical Inquiries And Obser...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
Essays: Literary, Moral and...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1798 — 2 editions
An Account of the Manners o...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
An Account of the Bilious R...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions
My Dearest Julia: The Lovel...
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Medical Inquiries & Observa...
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Medical Inquiries and Obser...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1789 — 3 editions
Observations Upon the Origi...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010
An Enquiry Into the Effects...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
Medical Inquiries and Obser...
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“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict
the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to
others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special
privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.”
Benjamin Rush

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty; and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments....We waste so much time and money in punishing crimes, and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity, by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws.”
Benjamin Rush

“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”
Benjamin Rush, A memorial containing travels through life or sundry incidents in the life of Dr. Benjamin Rush, born Dec. 24, 1745 (old style) died April 19, 1813;



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