Samuel Bard (physician)

Samuel Bard (1742–1821) was an American physician. He founded the first medical school in New York. He was a personal physician to George Washington. His description of the disease diphtheria was instrumental in formulating treatment for that condition. He also helped to found the second medical school in the United States at King's College, now known as Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

References

• John McVickar (1822), A Domestic Narrative of the Life of Samuel Bard, M. D.: LL. D., Late President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York, &c, Columbia College of Columbia University 

Selected Works

• A discourse upon the duties of a physician: with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital (1769)
• An enquiry into the nature, cause and cure, of the angina suffocativa, or, sore throat distemper (1771)
• A discourse on medical education (1819)
• A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery (1819)