Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848. Excerpt: ... BENJAMIN RUSH. Benjamin Rush was born in the township of Byberry, about twelve miles to the north-east of Philadelphia, on the twenty-fourth of December, 1745. Having lost his father at six years of age, the care of his education and that of a younger brother devolved solely upon his excellent mother, whose vigilance and activity appear to have amply compensated his early deprivation, or to have left at least no reason of interest to deplore it. The first care of the widowed mother of young Rush was to procure him the means of a liberal education; to which the limited resources of their farm being inadequate, she removed to the city of Philadelphia, and there entering into some commercial business, was enabled, by prudent management and rigid economy, to succeed in her generous undertaking. Having taught him herself the elements of the English language, she sent him at the age of nine years to the grammar school of Nottingham, in Maryland, at that time under the direction of her sister's husband, the Rev. Dr. Findley, afterwards president of the college of Princeton in New Jersey. Having finished his preparatory course of the dead languages, he was removed, at the age of fourteen, to Princeton College, then under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Davies, much lauded in his days for great piety and masterly eloquence. He completed his collegiate studies in this seminary, in the month of September, 1766, and received a degree of Bachelor of Arts, at about sixteen years of age. In 1766, having passed through the elementary grades of medicine with such opportunities as his country afforded him, and aspiring to still greater advantages, he went to Edinburgh, at that time the most noted medical school of Europe, where, after two years' 'attendance upon the public l...
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