Benjamin Rush

<p><span class="deck">Yellow fever killed 4,000 in Philadelphia in 1793, and puzzled doctors ignored the real clue to blame “miasmata” in the air.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Medicine was primitive and their knowledge of it limited, but in their hazardous journey to the Pacific, Lewis and Clark lost only one patient</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> OR</span> DON’T PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN RAM THROUGH TODAY </span></p>

<p>Common Sense was a bestseller and turned the tide of public feeling toward independence, but for its author fame was followed by ingratitude.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> “<span class="typestyle"> To spend and be spent for the Good of Mankind is what I chiefly aim at</span> ” </span></p>

<p>Rush was a visionary writer and reformer, a confidant to John Adams, Washington's surgeon general, and opponent of slavery and prejudice, yet he's not a well-known founding father. </p>

<p>During George Washington’s first term, an epidemic killed one-tent of  Philadelphians, which was the capital of the young United States.</p>