Philadelphia General Hospital

John returned home and took his medical degree in 1804. His dissertation was dedicated to his father. Then, instead of accepting an appointment at the Philadelphia General Hospital— where he would have been under his father s shadow—he re-entered the Navy as a sailing master. His naval career lasted less than four years. In 1807, John Rush fought a duel with Benjamin Taylor, one of his closest friends, in which he killed Taylor. Within a year, he attempted suicide. In February, 1810, John was returned to the parental home. His father described him thus Neither the embraces nor tears of his parents, brothers or sisters could prevail upon him to speak to them. His grief and uncombed hair and long beard added to the distress produced by the disease of his mind. .. ... 

Ballantyne, Jane, ed. The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management, 2nd ed. Philadelphia Lippincott Williams Wilkins, 2002. 

The move was important to me because the Cincinnati program offered two services that I could not get in Philadelphia working with newborns and with infectious diseases at the neighboring Cincinnati General Hospital. 

Universita di Torino, Torino, Italy Charles R. Bragdon, Ph.D Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Luigi Costa, Ph.D Dipartimento di Chimica IFM, Universita di Torino, Torino, Italy Judd S. Day, Ph.D Exponent Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA John H. Dumbleton Ph.D DSc Consultancy in Medical Devices, Ridgewood, NJ... 

The regulations and duties of hospital stewards are available in Joseph Janvier Woodward, The Hospital Steward s Manual (Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott, 1862). Although this is a U.S. Army publication, the responsibilities of stewards in the Confederacy were largely a mirror image of those found in this book and therefore are useful in seeing how pharmacy care was delivered in the military in general. 

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