Dr Benjamin Rush
American
American Patriot and physician. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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| Continental Army |
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- Son: Richard Rush
American Patriot and physician. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continental Army |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1759/00/00 | Benjamin Rush graduates from West Nottingham School in Maryland. | Education | West Nottingham Academy Historic District | Colora | |||
| 1773/00/00 | Dr Benjamin Rush establishes Carlisle Grammar School. | Founder | Old West, Dickinson College | Carlisle, PA | |||
| 1776/01/11 | Julia Stockton marries Benjamin Rush | Groom | Marriage of Julia Stockton and Benjamin Rush | ||||
| 1776/07/22 | Benjamin Rush arrives at the Second Constitutional Convention | Represented Pennsylvania | Independence Hall | Philadelphia, PA | Second Continental Congress | ||
| 1776/08/02 | Rush signs the Declaration of Independence: awful silence which pervaded the house when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress, to subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own death warrants? | Signer, Represented Pennsylvania | US Declaration of Independence | ||||
| 1777/01/03 | Hugh Mercer receives 7 bayonet wounds and is carried off the battlefield by his aide-de-camp, John Armstrong, where he is treated by James Craik and Benjamin Rush. | Surgeon | Princeton Battlefield | Princeton | Battle of Princeton | ||
| 1777/04/00 | Dr Benjamin Rush is commissioned Surgeon General of the Middle Department of the Continental Army. | Vocation | |||||
| 1777/09/12 | Dr Rush arrives at Gilpin Homestead at the request of General Howe to treat American wounded. | Surgeon | Gilpin Homestead | Chadds Ford | Battle of Brandywine | ||
| 1793/07/00 | The first major American yellow fever epidemic arrives in Philadelphia. Dr Rush believes the outbreak began in a mound of coffee beans rotting on the a dock. | Surgeon | Old City, Philly | 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic | |||
| 1793/08/00 | Benjamin Rush treats his patients with "heroic medicine", including copiously bleeding and large quantities of mercury. | Vocation | 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic | ||||
| 1793/09/20 | Dr Rush believes the body should rid itself of excess bile causing the disease: I now added gamboge to the calomel. Two grains and an half of each made into a pill, were given to an adult every six hours until they procured four or five stools. - BR | Vocation | 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic | ||||
| 1794/07/29 | Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia is dedicated. Richard Allen established the congregation with the assistance of Dr Benjamin Rush. | Vocation | Mother Bethel AME Church | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1800/00/00 | Benjamin Rush markets a laxative, Dr Rush's Bilious Pills. The pill is said to relieve "bilious" caused by a poor flow of bile in the body resulting in constipation, headache and a lack of energy. | Work | |||||
| 1803/07/00 | Dr Rush advises Lewis that when one of his men showed signs of an approaching disease, they are to take one or two of his "opening pills". The outfit buys 600 of Rush's Thunderbolts. The mercury laxatives contain calomel and jalap, both potent laxatives. | Medical Advisor | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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