Book/Printed Material An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania : delivered at the request of the graduates and students of medicine in said university, in the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 8th of July, 1813
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- Date: 1813
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Image 2 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of …- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 3 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of …- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 4 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of …- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 5 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of …- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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- Date: 1813
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Image 7 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … AN EULOGIUM IN MEMORY OF THE LATE DR BENJAMIN RUSH Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Practice in the Me University of Pennsylvania DELIVERED AND PUBLISHED AT…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 8 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … TO THE REV DR STAUGHTON Sir PermiT us in the name of the late Graduates and Students of the University of Pennsylvania to tender our grateful thanks to you for your appropriate…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 9 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … EULOGIUM c I RISE at the request of the graduates and students in medicine of the University of Pennsylvania to offer a tribute defective I fear but sincere and re spectful to…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 10 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 4 mother and Greece and Rome the adopters of this irreverence to the Supreme The encomiast has moreover sometimes so de graded himself and his office as to have ascribed high virtues…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 11 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 5 insensible to the generosity and delicacy of his heart when he exclaims Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other de lights How are the…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 12 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 6 surviving relatives it calls into action the most manly affections of the heart it gives tone and fire to youthful ardour and makes us in spite of conscious incapacity and indolence…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 13 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … self and family became members of the Baptist society Elizabeth his eldest daughter arrived with her hus band in Pennsylvania in 1682 having crossed the ocean in the same ship with the…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 14 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 8 God of angels sustain thee and the recollection be cherished that smitten friends continue angels still The 24th of December 1745 old style was the birthday of the deceased Professor He…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 15 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 9 taste of Rush was charmed and his judgment ripened by the beauty and splendours of fine writing at fifteen He attempted composition and was astonished to find his efforts succeeded with…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 16 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 10 commenced the study of medicine under the direction of the late Dr John Redman of this city So intense was his application that during the six years which he spent in…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 17 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … ll fered him by an eminent divine of this city he soon realized Be thou faithful over a few things and I will make thee ruler over many He was soon called…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 18 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 12 public are indebted to the enlightened detail of Dr Dorsey During the last year or two of his life a cough which he familiarly called his tussts senils increased very considerably…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 19 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … and wished as to himself that testimonies of personal respect should be sacrificed to public good Our friend is gone No more shall we hear his luminous and ora cular instructions in…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 20 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 14 Permit me the pleasure of placing before you in different lights the character of this distinguished man View him as a scholar a philosopher a patriot a physician a christian The…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 21 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 15 arising from their importanceto a critical acquaintance with our own from the fine models of eloquence and taste which they supply from the consent of European nations in making them the…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 22 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 16 young but growing republic His aims were like his patriotism pure and like his heart benevolent His acquaintance with the sciences was general If into some his leisure and inclination had…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 23 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 17 _ discovery but delighting in voyage calm persevering and successful Longinus represents liberty as the nurse of genius genius does honour to its foster mother With greater emphasis than Watts might…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 24 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 18 enquiry into the influence of physical causes upon the moral faculty_ He observes in the preface that if the facts and principles contained in the oration have the same operation upon…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 25 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 19 vincing and engaging light better than he His fancy was excursive but his judgment sedate One nation in Ex rope is famed for invention another for the appli cation of discoveries…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 26 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 20 medical exertion His practice was large and his labours Herculean but notwithstanding his natural constitution was feeble and required perpetual vigi lance to preserve its tone he so systematized his en…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 27 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 21 In the chamber of sickness the ease and elegance of Dr Rushs manners always created respect while his unaffected sympathy constrained age to love him as a brother and youth to…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 28 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 22 pupils and will secure the investigation perhaps the universal applause of posterity He decried nosology only because persuaded of its mischiefs He recom mended system and theory in medicine because he…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 29 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 23 now gentlemen said he I bid you farewell For the first time this season I have met you with reluc tance Accept of my thanks for your respectful and orderly attention…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 30 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 24 ment genius and eloquence supply where chemistry and the remaining parts of a medical education are taught with correctness respectability and effect Dr Rush maintained his elevation Like a primal fixed…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 31 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 25 fever as a return he received from the king a coro nation medal The thanks of the king of Spain in 1806 were tendered him for his answer to some queries…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 32 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 26 Anotherbut the record is too long It is a re cord of nearly fifty years and of thousands of cases we cannot go through it The names of many of you…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 33 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 27 thousands have been strangers to sleep I awoke how many have slept to wake no more I owe my safety to this thou Lord sustained me I could give you many…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 34 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 28 waxed not old and their feet swelled not Long or distant walking always produces more or less swell ing in the feet It was universal in the American army during the…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 35 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 29 issue of my public labours he replied Dont be discouraged my dear friend by the want of success in your attempts to do good Remember the Sa yiour of the world…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 36 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 30 Among the virtues which characterize good meu some one like a Penthesilea is frequently seen more prominent than the rest In Professor Rush that vir tue was benevolence It was benevolence…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 37 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 31 Benevolence converted into pleasure his visits to yon der superb mansion of mercy the Pennsylvania hos pital It was this rendered the cell of the maniac the seat of his humane…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 38 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of … 32 for his services He insisted on his receiving it anc departed content with the approbation of him who ir the judgment will say I was in prison and ye came unto…- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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Image 39 of An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of …- Contributor: Staughton, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1813
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- Date: 1813
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- An eulogium in memory of the late Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania : delivered at the request of the graduates and students of medicine in said university, in the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 8th of July, 1813
Names
- Staughton, William, 1770-1829.
- Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Philadelphia, Pub. by request of the graduates, 1813.
Headings
- - Rush, Benjamin,--1746-1813
- - Physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography
- - College teachers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography
- - University of Pennsylvania--Faculty--Biography
- - Eulogies--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography
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- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC scc 2020-03-11 update (1 card)
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- 32 p. 22 cm.
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- E302.6.R85 S7
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- 13006015
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- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Staughton, William