An eulogium upon Benjamin Rush, M.D., professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania : who departed this life April 19, 1813, in the sixty-ninth year of his age : written at the request of the Medical Society of South Carolina, and delivered before them and others, in the Circular Church of Charleston, on the 10th of June, 1813, and published at their request / by David Ramsay, M.D. member of the South Carolina Medical Society.

  • Ramsay, David, 1749-1815.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An eulogium upon Benjamin Rush, M.D., professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania : who departed this life April 19, 1813, in the sixty-ninth year of his age : written at the request of the Medical Society of South Carolina, and delivered before them and others, in the Circular Church of Charleston, on the 10th of June, 1813, and published at their request / by David Ramsay, M.D. member of the South Carolina Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of respect to the memory of Dr. Rush should be de- livered in public. When the society next met, they therefore adopted a resolution to that effect, and ap- pointed a committee to fix on time and place for a public exhibition. This change involved some diffi- culty. The Eulogium was already written in a plain didactic style, to be soberly read before a small num- ber of professional gentlemen, and was not calculated for delivery before a promiscuous popular assembly. To accommodate to the change, much of the medical part of the work was omitted. By a subsequent vote of the society, the author was requested to prepare a copy for publication. This made it proper to re- place what had been omitted in the public delivery of the Eulogium, and also furnished an opportunity of enlarging the medical part of it. These statements are made to account for the difference between what was delivered and what is now published. The intention of the society was to do honour to the memory of Dr. Rush, and to do good to the public, by holding up his bright example for imita- tion. To answer these purposes it was necessary that not only a short sketch of his life, but of his profes- sional merits, should be brought into view. Most of the members of the society, were of opinion that Dr. Rush had improved both the theory and practice of