Benjamin Rush, US, Physician

August 2. Benjamin Rush. At the age of 23, Rush, the physician, became the first professor of chemistry in America. He also published a tract on the evils of the slavery and helped organize the first anti-slavery society in America. He was brilliant and accomplished and prolific, but some also called him, “unshakable in his […] The post Benjamin Rush, US, Physician first appeared on 365 Christian Men.