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Excerpt from An Eulogium in Memory of the Late Dr. Benjamin Rush, Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Practice in the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered and Published at the Request of the Graduates and Students of Medicine in Said University, in the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 8th of July, 1813
The pestilence, a visitation which the page of inspira tion sublimely denominates death, with hell, or the grave in its retinue, he endeavoured to follow through its dismal meanders, and has pointed you to the ministers of heaven - the sky, the miasm, the neglected dock, or unventilated ship that produced it. When Philadelphia was stormed by this dread inva der, he was not merely a centinel at his post, but a general in his ranks. He lost sight of his personal ex posure in his solicitude for the recovery of his suffer ing fellow citizens. His deliberate passion for the public good, no derision of his remedies, no miste presentation of his principles could exterminate or diminish. He felt and acted to the wide extent of his capacity, as a disciple of that Son of man who came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
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