People, Jul. 4, 1976

Philadelphia's best-known physician Benjamin Rush, 30, is now busy prescribing to the health of all Americans. A delegate to the Pennsylvania Provincial Conference, he has been an outspoken Patriot since 1773, when he protested the British tea tax by publishing a newspaper article claiming that tea caused nervous disorders. But he has not cut off all ties to his ancestral Britain, and he talks of one sport that he feels should be imported to America. "There is a large common in which there are several little holes,"...

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