ALS, 1793 June 3 : Philadelphia, to Dr. Valentine Seaman.

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ALS, 1793 June 3 : Philadelphia, to Dr. Valentine Seaman.

Physician Rush writes: "Your analysis of the mineral waters at Saratoga is ingenious and calculated to be useful." He also says: "I beg you would continue to send me copies of all that are published in your college every year. I love to read the productions of young men. If they are destitute of some facts, they abound with new thoughts and are most necessary to men in the median or decline of life."

2 p. ; 25.5 x 20 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6916616

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...

Seaman, Valentine, 1770-1817

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