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Edward Nathaniel Brush was the son of Nathaniel Howland and Myra Theresa (Warren) Brush, was born on April 23, 1852 in Glenwood, Erie County, New York. He was descended from Thomas Brush, who emigrated from England in the seventeenth century and settled at Huntington, Long Island.
Edward was educated in public and private schools of Buffalo. Owing to the death of his father he entered immediately the Buffalo Medical School without going through college.
After graduating in 1874 Edward Brush had two years of assistantship with the professor of medicine and associated himself with his preceptor, Julius F. Miner, professor of surgery and editor of the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. Brush himself was connected with the journal as associate editor and as editor from 1873 to 1879.
His interest in further work in pathology led Dr. John Purdue Gray to invite him to work a few months at the Utica State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital) in 1878, whereupon he actually espoused psychiatric hospital work as assistant, and, during Gray's disability from an attempt at assassination by a former patient, as acting superintendent. In 1884, when Dr. John Bassett Chapin became superintendent of the department for the insane of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Brush was put in charge of the men's department.
On January 1, 1891, Brush assumed the superintendency of the new Sheppard Asylum at Towson, Maryland.
In 1882 and again in 1904 he widened his contacts by visits to British and Continental institutions. Concurrently with his hospital work Brush taught in Baltimore at the Woman's Medical School from 1896 to 1899, the College of the Physicians and Surgeons, 1899 to 1915, and at the University of Maryland, 1915 to 1920, when he became professor emeritus. Throughout his career he was an active member of the local and state medical societies.
He died of pneumonia in his eighty-first year.
Edward Nathaniel Brush made a significant contribution during a tenure of twenty-nine years as physician and later also as administrator. He developed the institution into the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, a semi-private hospital which became outstanding among institutions of its kind. His association with Stewart Paton enabled Brush not only to provide the best therapeutic facilities for his patients but also to make the hospital a center of training for the development of investigation and research. With Paton, William Rush Dunton, and Clarence B. Farrar he actually developed an important center of training for psychiatrists. Moreover, in the treatment of the insane, with the special help of William Rush Dunton, Brush and his staff did as much as any others in the United States to develop occupational therapy. He was also an associate editor of the American Journal of Insanity (after 1921 the American Journal of Psychiatry) from 1878 to 1884 and again from 1897 to 1904, and editor from 1904 to 1931. He held the journal to a high editorial standard and in so doing exerted a quiet but salutary influence on his profession. His own bibliography, containing some fifty contributions to medical journals, covers a wide range of interests. He was president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1904-05, and of the American Medico-psychological Association, 1915-16, and received honorary membership in British, Belgian, and French societies. He was President of the American Psychiatric Association from 1915 to 1916.
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Brush was an honorary member of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, an honorary member of the Société Royale de Médecine Mentale de Belgique, and was a Foreign Associate member of the Société Médico-Psychologique in Paris. He was also a member of the American Psychiatric Association.
Brush was married to Delia Austin Hawley of Buffalo on September 18, 1879. They had two daughters, Lavinia and Florence, and a son, Nathaniel Hawley Brush, who followed the profession of his father but died prematurely at fifty-three.
After the death of his first wife in 1911, Brush was married on August 6, 1914, to Marie Trego Hartman of Baltimore, who survived him.
He also assisted Dr. James P. White, a leading gynecologist and obstetrician, during his years of practice in Buffalo.
