Dr. Benjamin Rush, born January 4, 1746, was destined to have an extraordinary life filled with education, life saving, life changing and being a part of the group of men who founded what was once the greatest country in the world. (Rush) Born to John and Susanna (Morris) Rush, Benjamin Rush had a different kind of childhood; his father died when Benjamin was six years old, leaving his mother to care for her many children1. (Rush) As a woman who strongly believed in education, having had an excellent one herself, she made sacrifices to make sure her children got the education they deserved. (Rush) When Benjamin was eight years old Susanna decided to send him to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Reverend Samuel Finley, who had recently …show more content…
Rush returned to Philadelphia and at 24 years of age he opened his own private practice. (Rush) His practice was one that was very well known not only in Philadelphia but also in many surrounding cities because Dr. Rush chose to run his practice on his moral principles; Dr. Rush often had patients who had no way of monetarily compensating him for his services, instead of turning them away he helped them, saving countless of lives that would have been otherwise lost. (Rush) Being an active member in the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia, the organization that was formed to protect colonists against the British mistreatment, Dr. Rush was elected to attend the Continental Congress after attending the Provincial Congress as Philadelphia’s representative. (DP) As an attendee of the Continental Congress Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of 56 men to sign the Declaration of Independence on 2 August 1777. While the colonies began the process of declaring independence from Britain they also began the tedious process of preparing for an impossible war in which America was greatly out gunned, out manned and out trained but, as we know today, Britain was out-hearted, the men that fought for the independence of America fought for a reason that the British soldiers could have no way of understanding. In 1777 acting Commander in Chief, General George …show more content…
Rush really kick started. Prior to Dr. Rush’s involvement at Pennsylvania Hospital any activities related to something like occupational therapy were non-existent but after seeing how much gardening, sewing, exercising and listening to music helped his psychiatric patients Dr. Rush began to attempt to incorporate the idea into the lives of other patients as well. (D’Elia) As time went on Dr. Rush continuously attempted to diagnose and treat those deemed insane as humanely as possible, people began to call his approach to treatment “moral therapy.” (Weisberger) In a few cases Dr. Rush was even able to assist people in returning back to society; which, during the time, was nearly unheard of. Dr. Rush had many motives for doing what he did, the worst of which being that his son, a lawyer in Philadelphia and a United States Sailor, 4 It was eventually found that mercury actually made things much worse for the mentally ill, in fact the phrase “mad as a hatter” comes from the hatter’s use of mercury in the production of felt; mercury is entirely toxic to the human body. As it happens, Dr. Rush is also the person who assisted Lewis and Clark in the preparation for the travels; knowing they would run into digestive issues Dr. Rush prescribed “bilious pills,” a laxative that contained mercury; these pills, and their result, are a large factor in why we know the exact trail that was followed by the
However eventually the colonist also known as the Americans won this long fight for freedom. America won the revolutionary war in 1783. They were no longer under the rule of Great Britain. America was completely free and had no mother country. We became a democracy and was no longer a monarchy. We could than elect a president and the colonies had a say so in the government. Even after being beat down by Britain, America rebelled, started a revolution, and won the war. All for one word;
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers to the United States, was not a patriot but a mere loyalist to England before the dissolution between England and the colonies occurred. Sheila L. Skemp's The Making of a Patriot explores how Benjamin Franklin tried to stay loyal to the crown while taking interest in the colonies perception and their own representation in Parliament. While Ms. Skemp alludes to Franklin's loyalty, her main illustration is how the attack by Alexander Wedderburn during the Privy Council led to Franklin's disillusionment with the British crown and the greater interest in making the Thirteen Colonies their own nation. Her analysis of Franklin's history in Parliament and what occurred on the night that the council convened proves the change behind Franklin's beliefs and what lead to his involvement in the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin was the colonial agent representing Massachusetts in Parliament in Britain.
...ere, George the Third can read that without his spectacles. Now he cans double his reward for my head.” Hancock was the only one to sign the Declaration of Independence on the fourth; the others delegates signed on August 2nd. He requested Washington have the Declaration read to the Army. For much of the war, John lived in luxury. He and Dolly were married in the summer of 1775. In 1776, he was appointed commander in chief of the Massachusetts militia. In July 1778, he led 6,000 of his militia in a failed attack on the British at Newport; he was the governor of Massachusetts. But he resigned. (Lee, 17-47)
In July of 1776, the colonies declared their independence. The war wasn’t over, but the colonies considered themselves independent and therefor created their own government- The Articles of Confederation, to abolish British rule. The Articles of Confederation became the law in 1781. Meanwhile, the fighting in the war continued and the colonists managed to be successful in two major battles that led to their victory in the American Revolution- The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. The American Revolution finally came to an end in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. Colonists were formally given their independence by
Name of serial killer: My serial killer is named Richard Chase. He was also known as the “Vampire of Sacramento” or the “Dracula Killer”.
This conclusion seemed to contradict every presumption about Great Britain’s imperial power. In all other conflicts, the British seemed to win decisively but the problem in the American Revolution lies with Britain underestimating the colonists. The British were blind to America’s symbolic presence as an end to an imperial structure. France and Spain aided the colonists in hopes of defeating the tyrannical empire. Britain underestimated George Washington and the Continental Army. Over time, the colonial militias trained in the European fashion and transformed into a challenging force. Ultimately, the most distinctive miscalculation of the British was the perseverance of the colonists and their fight for freedom. While Britain was fighting for control over yet another revenue source, America was fighting for independence and principle. The difference between the motivations was the predominant factor in deciding the
At the age of 28 Rush took a job organizing community events for the Kansas
A- John Adams- A Massachusetts lawyer and politician, John Adams was the one that defended the British shooters at the Boston Massacre. He went on to join the meeting at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. Adams and the rest of the Congress wanted there to be an end to the Intolerable acts that were put on the Colonies by the British, and they wanted to have their own government, instead of the British governing them. This lead to the start of the Revolutionary War. John Adams was one of the delegates from Massachusetts to sign the Declaration of Independence.
...arliament, caused the colonies to become more and more independent throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the colonists wanted to exhaust every remedy to their grievances before resorting to war. Declaring independence was never going to be a swift process, as each colony progressed at a different rate. Nonetheless, forming a colonial army at the same time as attempting to negotiate peaceful conciliation with the British was not at first a popular decision, yet to many the benefits outweighed the possible losses. In the end, the rejection of the Olive branch represented a watershed in the evolution of a national identity that was completely independent of a British identity, for its dismissal stiffened the patriots’ resolve toward independence and paved the way for the penning of a much more famous letter to the king, the Declaration of Independence.
Madness: A History, a film by the Films Media Group, is the final installment of a five part series, Kill or Cure: A History of Medical Treatment. It presents a history of the medical science community and it’s relationship with those who suffer from mental illness. The program uses original manuscripts, photos, testimonials, and video footage from medical archives, detailing the historical progression of doctors and scientists’ understanding and treatment of mental illness. The film compares and contrasts the techniques utilized today, with the methods of the past. The film offers an often grim and disturbing recounting of the road we’ve taken from madness to illness.
Moral treatment is a treatment that uses “psychological methods” to treat mental diseases (Packet Two, 26). In general, moral treatment was a relatively benevolent and humane approach to treat mental disorders. Before the introduction of moral treatment, insane people were regarded by the general public as wild animals whose brains were physically impaired and usually incurable (Packet One, 11). Therefore, regardless of patients’ specific symptoms, physicians generally labeled patients as lunatics and treated them with the same method (Packet One, 11). Because of the perceived impossibility of curing mental illness, physicians put far greater emphasis on restraining patients’ potential danger behaviors than striving to bring them back to sanity. Cruel methods such as bloodletting were widely used, but their effectiveness was really poor. Moral treatment was a response to this ineffective and brutal traditional treatment. The advocates of moral treatment insisted that mental diseases were curable. By providing a friendly environment that contributed to reviving, moral treatment could help patients to...
In 1776 when the Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain with the Declaration of Independence they had one clear goal in mind: become a sovereign nation and avoid the tyranny of Great Britain. What they did not know, however, is that they had to face many more issues beyond simply cutting the ties with Great Britain; they also had to create and maintain a working system of rules which could guide them into becoming the United States of America. Once Independence was gained in 1783, the Articles of Confederation were created, but with many deep flaws in the system. The Federal government had no power, and the states were loosely held together and hardly acted as if they were a single united nation. After recognizing that these problems were too large to overcome easily, several of the greatest men in the nation gathered together to rectify these problems.
On January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the eighth child of seventeen children. By the time young Mr. Franklin was eight years old he was sent to South Grammar School. The next year he attended George Brownell’s English School, a school for arithmetic and writing. He showed great talent for writing and little for arithmetic. “Young Franklin
In the 1770’s the British army was well known for its monetary wealth and professional well trained militia. American colonists were slowly getting more and more fed up with the inequality and taxation under British rule so they took a stand. Americans known as Rebels or Patriots fought in the Revolutionary War to gain independence from Britain. Some colonists also known as loyalists, thought that the Patriots had no chance against the professional militia so they stayed loyal to the crown. Although improbable at the start of the American Revolution, the colonists were able to defeat the British army and formally gain independence because they had great leadership from George Washington, similar goals that created high morale, and aided from
The American Revolution began as a conflict over political and social change, but soon developed into a dispute over personal rights and political liberty. A decade of conflicts between the British government and the Americans, starting with the Stamp Act in 1765 that eventually led to war in 1775, along with The Declaration of Independence in 1776. Americans united as one and knew that they wanted to be an independent country, have their own laws, rights, and not be a colony of the Great Britain. They fought hard for their independence and people lost their lives in the process of it, but in the end they succeeded. Never give up, keep fighting till the mission is accomplished, just like the Americans did when they were fighting for their independence.