Benjamin Rush

Type: Person

As of November 2026, Benjamin Rush has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Knowing Better (Oct 2023). Used to supply a ‘secular’ medical rationale (overstimulation theory) that the episode says influenced Graham’s synthesis of diet, disease, and sexual morality.

Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress. He later described his efforts in support of the American Revolution, saying: "He aimed well." He served as Surgeon General of the Middle Departme