10-30-2014, 01:42 AM
Thanks, Erthona. I'll try and answer your queries.
The King of Babylon line is a direct quote from Rush describing his son's appearance when he returned home after experiencing some sort of breakdown.
Theft doesn't ooze out of orifices, no more than does heresy, buggery and blasphemy. I was attempting to show how Rush viewed what are moral issues as the products of diseased minds and bodies. It would be more consistent if Theft were omitted and I think I'll do that.
I was under the impression that gaoler was an American usage! But I'm wrong! I'll change it.
The "deep gutters" again comes from Rush himself.
The Gyrator and The Tranquiliser were both contraptions that Rush "invented" himself. They were based on devices formerly used in the persecution of witches.
His works seem barbarous now and for some they did so at the time.
Thomas Jefferson - "In his theory of bleeding and mercury, I was ever opposed to my friend Rush, whom I greatly loved; but who had done much harm, in the sincerest persuasion that he was preserving life and happiness to all around him."
William B. Bean - Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa " The heroic aspects of Benjamin Rush have made us forget the harm he did. His willingness to follow the guttering candle of ignorance, his dogmatic convictions that he was right, his consummate ability to fool himself consistently helped to kill an unmeasured plenty of his patients in Philadelphia."
I agree on the inaccessibility, I suppose, but I find him a fascinating figure, something of a template for the psychiatric profession.
The fonts! I am one of those old people with tired eyes. I cannot work out what happens with these fonts, it's driving me crazy. I'm off for a spin in The Gyrator.
The King of Babylon line is a direct quote from Rush describing his son's appearance when he returned home after experiencing some sort of breakdown.
Theft doesn't ooze out of orifices, no more than does heresy, buggery and blasphemy. I was attempting to show how Rush viewed what are moral issues as the products of diseased minds and bodies. It would be more consistent if Theft were omitted and I think I'll do that.
I was under the impression that gaoler was an American usage! But I'm wrong! I'll change it.
The "deep gutters" again comes from Rush himself.
The Gyrator and The Tranquiliser were both contraptions that Rush "invented" himself. They were based on devices formerly used in the persecution of witches.
His works seem barbarous now and for some they did so at the time.
Thomas Jefferson - "In his theory of bleeding and mercury, I was ever opposed to my friend Rush, whom I greatly loved; but who had done much harm, in the sincerest persuasion that he was preserving life and happiness to all around him."
William B. Bean - Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa " The heroic aspects of Benjamin Rush have made us forget the harm he did. His willingness to follow the guttering candle of ignorance, his dogmatic convictions that he was right, his consummate ability to fool himself consistently helped to kill an unmeasured plenty of his patients in Philadelphia."
I agree on the inaccessibility, I suppose, but I find him a fascinating figure, something of a template for the psychiatric profession.
The fonts! I am one of those old people with tired eyes. I cannot work out what happens with these fonts, it's driving me crazy. I'm off for a spin in The Gyrator.
Before criticising a person try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise that person, you are a mile away.... and you have their shoes.