This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...But he was suave and bland to all men, professing universal friendship and humanity, and calling every one who would listen to him his dear friend and fellow-citizen. To all religious sects he was alike affable: Episcopalians and Presbyterians, Quakers and Methodists, received from him equal ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...But he was suave and bland to all men, professing universal friendship and humanity, and calling every one who would listen to him his dear friend and fellow-citizen. To all religious sects he was alike affable: Episcopalians and Presbyterians, Quakers and Methodists, received from him equal professions of esteem. An article appeared one morning in the 'United States Gazette, ' signed " A Member of the College of Physicians," giving a very unfavourable account tf Rush's conduct during the yellow fever in 1793. This 1799-1 RUSH AND THE YELLOW FEVER. 2OI article was really written by Dr Currie, but was attributed by Eush and his followers to Dr Eoss, a Scotch physician of learning and eminence. Eush had sons grown up to manhood, and one of them thought proper to send a challenge to Eoss, to which Eoss merely replied that the challenger was an impertinent puppy. Eush's son, in a rage, got the help of a Dr Bullus, and the two waylaid Dr Eoss and beat him unmercifully with a bludgeon. Next day Cobbett published an account of the matter, which, though incorrect in some minor particulars, was essentially true. Eush's son, however, took offence at the statement, and printed an address to Cobbett, calling him a violator of truth and a coward. Cobbett reprinted the address in the columns of 'Porcupine' as that of not only "an impertinent puppy," as he had been justly called, but " a waylaying coward, a liar, and a rascal." Such were the railings of the American press; but young Eush read Cobbett's vituperation without venturing to treat him as he had treated Eoss. When the yellow fever broke out again in 1797, Eush published certain letters which he had received from a few brothers of the lancet, and some other individuals, giving an account of the...
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