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Talk:Benjamin Rush

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I'm not sure you can call an 18th century doctor a quack. Let's be fair, here. Medicine as we know it didn't exist back then. The Enlightenment idea of science was to make bald assertions and goofy experiments (I'm looking at you, Benjamin Franklin's corpse).--"Shut up, Brx." 05:01, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

I tend to agree. Rush was following mainstream or at least widely accepted practices of his time. The germ theory of disease didn't even exist then. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 19:46, 9 August 2013 (UTC)