Benjamin Rush letters to Landon Carter [manuscript] 1804 Jan. 3 & 26.

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Benjamin Rush letters to Landon Carter [manuscript] 1804 Jan. 3 & 26.

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Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia, writes to Landon Carter, Cleve, King George Co., Va., offering advice on the care of a medical patient afflicted with "pulmonary consumption."

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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...

Carter, Landon, 1751-1811,

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