Benjamin Rush
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When Rush referred to calomel as the “Samson of medicine,” Cobbett wrote:</p>
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<p id="__p38">Dr. Rush in that emphatical style which is peculiar to himself calls mercury the Samson of medicine. In his hands and those of his partisans it may indeed be justly compared to Samson: for I verily believe they have slain more Americans with it than ever Samson slew of the Philistines. <b>The Israelite slew his thousands,</b> but the Rushites have slain their tens of thousands (28)."
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