Abstract
Stormy petrel of American medicine of the Revolutionary period was Benjamin Rush. Combined in one man was a genius for organization, great ability as a physician, an inspired states-man and a writer of considerable quality. His eccentricities combined to disturb his friends and associates. Now his autobiography and his "Commonplace Books" are gathered in a single volume edited by the extremely capable George W. Corner. The "Commonplace Books" are diaries kept by Dr. Rush in which he made occasional entries and which he left to languish frequently when occupied with other affairs. In the diaries he writes with great directness. Thus a comment on Dr. Alexander Ramsey, who came to the United States as a wandering teacher of anatomy: He gave six lectures in New York and six in Philadelphia upon what he called the "natural theology of human body." These lectures were desultory, incoherent and a melange of natural
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