The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush

a pioneer in the use of occupational therapy; he saw the psychosomatic aspects of many diseases, was something of a psychiatrist?even in his day?and was amongst the very first to encourage analytical conversation in his patients. These facts alone should interest the readers of this magazine in his writings. But the book is over 400 pages, and much, that it contains is passe or actually wrong: thus for all his insistence on research and experimental method, for all his novel (and often advanced) ideas, and open mind, he still implicitly and explicitly assumed bleeding to be