Tag: Benjamin Rush

Lunch Bite – Benjamin Rush’s Directions for Preserving the Health of Soldiers

Join Library Director Ellen McCallister Clark for a discussion of this 1778 publication that reflected the ambition of physicians as well as American leaders to apply the insights of contemporary science to the conduct of war. This Lunch Bite accompanies the exhibition Saving Soldiers: Medical Practice in the Revolutionary War (April 1-November 27, 2022). The […]