THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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ency of the declaration of independence, 

 and is supposed to have written the 



report, much of which was incorpo- 

 rated in the declaration. Ee was a 

 surgeon-general in the war of inde- 

 pendence, but resigned after two years, 

 owing, it is said, to differences with 

 Washington in regard to hospital 

 stores. Thereafter ho devoted himself 

 to medical work and writing, lint re- 



i i<>ii in a dispute with his fellow physi- 

 cians as to the cure of the disease by 

 blood-letting. Probably, however, his 

 work on behalf of the insane was his 

 mosl important service to medical sci- 

 ence, lie suggested detached cottages 

 for the care 01 the insane, objecting to 

 the confinement of lunatics in cells as 

 early as 1789. Hush died in 1813. 

 Dr. Wilson in his address at the un- 



A Rubber Vine, Western Mindoro. 



tained wide interests, advocating, 

 among other things, the abolition of 

 slavery, temperance, the higher educa- 

 tion of women, international arbitra- 

 tion and religious liberty. His services 

 at the time of the epidemic of yellow- 

 fever in 1793 and his account of it 

 gave him a wide reputation, though 

 he was on the wrong side of the ques- 



veiling of the monument said: " Xearlv 

 a century has passed since Benjamin 

 Rush was gathered to his fathers. To 

 his contemporaries he was a man not 

 unlike other men, having his virtues 

 and his faults, a good citizen, a skill- 

 ful physician, kindly, courteous, ben- 

 evolent, and having on occasion much 

 fight in him. He was even known to 



