An eulogium in honor of the late Dr. William Cullen, professor of the practice of physic in the University of Edinburgh : delivered before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, on the 9th of July, agreeably to their vote of the 4th of May, 1790 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the theory and practice of medicine, in the College of Philadelphia. Published by order of the College of Physicians.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: An eulogium in honor of the late Dr. William Cullen, professor of the practice of physic in the University of Edinburgh : delivered before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, on the 9th of July, agreeably to their vote of the 4th of May, 1790 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the theory and practice of medicine, in the College of Philadelphia. Published by order of the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E U L O G I U M, &?c. Mr President and Gentlemen, BY your unanimous vote, to honour with an Eulogium, the diftinguifhed charae^ ter of the late Dr. William Cullen, Profelfor of Medicine in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, you have done equal homage to Science and Humanity. This illuftrious Phy- lician was the Preceptor of many of us:— He was moreover a diftinguiflied citizen of the republic of Medicine, and a benefactor to Mankind; and although, like the fun, he flione in a diftant hemifphere, yet many of the rays of his knowledge have fallen up- on this quarter of the globe. I rife, there- fore, to mingle your grateful praifes of him, with the numerous offerings of public and private refped: which have been paid to his memory in his native country. Happy will be the effeds of fuch ad:s of diHant fympa- thy,