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historical figure
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| gptkbp:advocatesFor |
abolition of slavery
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| gptkbp:contributedTo |
American_psychiatry
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| gptkbp:diedIn |
April 19, 1813
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Benjamin Rush
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gptkb:surgeon_general_of_the_Continental_Army
writer educator physician chemist philanthropist social reformer reformer proponent of the separation of church and state advocate for temperance advocate for women's education advocate for public education author of the first American textbook on psychiatry founder of the first American psychiatric hospital proponent of the humane treatment of the mentally ill advocate for the establishment of a national library proponent of the use of moral treatment in psychiatry proponent of the use of bloodletting proponent of the use of the scientific method in medicine advocate for the establishment of a national university proponent of the establishment of a national academy of sciences proponent of the establishment of a national historical society critic of the practice of phrenology advocate for the establishment of a national art gallery proponent of the establishment of a national bank proponent of vaccination advocate for the establishment of a national agricultural society advocate for the establishment of a public health system proponent of the establishment of a national theater founder of the first medical school in the United States proponent of the establishment of a national museum advocate for the establishment of a national observatory member_of_the_American_Philosophical_Society founding_father_of_the_United_States signer_of_the_Declaration_of_Independence signer_of_the_Articles_of_Confederation member_of_the_Society_of_the_Cincinnati member_of_the_Continental_Congress founder_of_the_Philadelphia_Society_for_Promoting_Agriculture advocate_for_the_rights_of_Native_Americans founder_of_Dickinson_College founder_of_the_Pennsylvania_Hospital member_of_the_American_Medical_Association |
| gptkbp:wasEducatedAt |
gptkb:Princeton_University
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| gptkbp:wasFoundedIn |
gptkb:Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania
January 4, 1746 |
| gptkbp:wrote |
Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind
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