Benjamin Rush, Physician, scientist, educator, and essayist, was born in Byberry Township near Philadelphia, the son of Susanna Hall Harvey and her second husband, John Rush, a gunsmith and farmer. Rush graduated from the College of New Jersey (now...

Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), physician, patriot, and humanitarian, represented the epitome of the versatile, wide-ranging physician in America. He insisted on a theoretical structure for medical practice. Benjamin Rush was born on Dec. 24, 1745, on a...

1745-1813 American Physician, Politician and Medical Educator Benjamin Rush was the most prominent American physician of his day. He was the first professor of medical chemistry in America, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a hero of the...

Born December 24, 1745Byberry, PennsylvaniaDied April 19, 1813Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Physician, educator, writer, reformer, political leader "The American war is over: but that is far from the case with the American Revolution."...

Dr. Benjamin Rush (December 24 1745 – April 19 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in...

8-E Philadelphia Tribune, The 12-06-1994 The Benjamin Rush Middle School. Saunja Johnson Tribune Staff One day while at home, Nicole DeKauser was reading The School of the Week column in The Philadelphia Tribune's Learning Key. DeKauser, a student at the...

Last November the U.S. Supreme Court considered the appeal in Ashcroft v. Raich, regarding approval for so-called medical marijuana, that is, for marijuana by prescription. Hearing the case, Justice Stephen Breyer stated: "Medicine by regulation is better than medicine by referendum." This is...