Yeah, i'd read that Rush was into bloodletting, which I've read elsewhere actually has some advantageous properties and that things like leeches and other Theodoric Barber of York type "cures" are still employed and found quite beneficial.

I always forget that Pennsylvania was the hub of the government for so long. Now all I think of when I think of Pennsylvania is the scary Pennsylvania Dutch who think they're Dutch, but are really German because Dutch is a bad pronunciation/derivation of Deutch.