Letter : $b Philadelphia, to Dr. John Stevenson, Snowhill, Worcester County, Md., $f 1802 June 14.

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Letter : $b Philadelphia, to Dr. John Stevenson, Snowhill, Worcester County, Md., $f 1802 June 14.

ALS regarding Rush's vaccination practices in Philadelphia and commenting on Stevenson's successful treatment of Dropsy in Maryland using Rush's techniques.

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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...

Stevenson, John, fl. 1802

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