Doctors are called angels in white, they are the ones who save lives, but we will always scoff at those unscrupulous quacks. And the doctor I am talking about today is a real quack, but because of a signature, he has become a famous person. 
Medical students should know the book "History of Absurd Medicine", which is mainly about some absurd methods in Western medicine, which contains 5 categories and nearly 40 absurd medical techniques. This book uses storytelling to explain to you the methods of bloodletting**, detoxification, mercury**syphilis, etc., these methods are actually extremely unreliable medical skills, and today's protagonist Benjamin Rush is a quack doctor who strictly follows the execution of this book, and he believes that the best way to ** mental illness is to take calomite. However, calomel contains a very dangerous ingredient, that is, mercury, Western medicine for hundreds of years, mercury-containing drugs have been said to be able to ** various diseases. 
Benjamin Rush has his own views on mental illness, using mercury** to divert excitement from the brain and remove toxins from internal organs, so that patients can eliminate toxins, which can reduce mental suffering. At that time, the yellow fever virus transmitted by mosquitoes made the people of the whole city miserable, at this time, Benjamin Rush advocated the use of bloodletting** and taking calomel ** method, and the amount of medicine used to the patient was ten times the normal amount, the medical community loved laxatives at that time**, but saw Dr. Benjamin Rush do this, they all thought it was very excessive. At that time, many writers labeled Benjamin Rush as a "fierce medicine quack", and the mortality rate of yellow fever was originally only 33%, but after Benjamin Rush's bold **, the mortality rate of these patients was as high as 46%, this data is really shocking, and the name of "fierce medicine quack" is not unreasonable. However, calomel continued to be used in the medical community until the mid-20th century, when people discovered how toxic heavy metals were. 
The saying that you are sick is because the blood is bad" is widely circulated, and Benjamin Rush advocated bloodletting, no matter what the disease, you will be cured with a knife. There are many people who died of bloodletting in history, Washington was just tracheitis, and after finding a quack doctor, he had no solution, but in the end he suffered hemorrhagic shock due to bloodletting and never woke up. King Charles II of England originally just suffered a stroke, but some quacks used the ** method indiscriminately, cut the king's veins and bleed, and finally fed the king laxatives, and the king died repeatedly. Benjamin Rush is a crazy bloodletter, no matter what the disease, he can't get it from him**, and the fever he said is because the blood is too active,** The way is naturally to cut the flesh and release the blood from the body. Benjamin Rush also likes to pour mercury into patients, such a ridiculous method, so that very few people can get out of Benjamin Rush's clinic alive, and a reporter once wrote a report that "crying and shouting for bloodletting, this is really bad news of the times." ”
Benjamin Rush pointed out that constipation is a big signal of the coming of the disease, and you must take more detoxification drugs, and you must work hard to detoxify before you can **, until the patient's feces are filled with mercury. Benjamin Rush has been questioned in all his ways, but he still firmly believes in his own ideas, regardless of whether he cures the patient's disease in the end, but in the history of stoolology, he can still help some patients. After the 19th century, Benjamin Rush realized that his medical skills were too poor and gave up practicing medicine. Benjamin Rush, who is no longer a doctor, spent more than a decade fighting his old rival Corbett, eventually receiving $8,000 in damages. He later signed the Declaration of Independence, which was of great significance to American history, and with this feat, he left an important mark in American history and can be regarded as the founding father of the United States.