Dr thomas bond biography of barack
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CHAPTER XI
MEDICAL DIRECTOR SHIPPEN
Dr. William Shippen, Medical Director of the Army
William Shippen, the son of a physician, was born in Philadelphia in Like Rush, he studied at Mr. Finley’s Academy, and later attended Princeton College. Here he became a fine classical scholar and also developed oratorical ability of a high order. He graduated under President Burr in The next three years were spent in the study of medicine with his father; and then in he embarked for Europe. He studied with John and William Hunter in London, and also with Sir John Pringle. He made a special study of anatomy, surgery and midwifery. He then went to Edinburgh, graduated in medicine there, and later studied in Paris, returning to Philadelphia in He soon began a course of lectures on anatomy, the forerunner of the medical school which he assisted Morgan in founding in This was the first medical school in America. Shippen was made professor of anatomy and surgery, and lectured regularly until ,
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DS: Pennsylvania Hospital
January 23,
The founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital is one of the best-known episodes in Franklin’s public career, for he related the history of it in his autobiography at length, if not accurately in all details, and he printed the relevant documents in Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Franklin’s friend Dr. Thomas Bond6 was one of the first to realize that Philadelphia needed a hospital to supplement the limited provisions of the almshouse and lazaretto. In Bond began to solicit funds, but met with no success. Prospective donors almost invariably asked what Franklin thought of the undertaking, and when Bond confessed that he had not consulted him, they replied they would think about his scheme, but gave him nothing. At length Bond came to Franklin, who “enquir’d into the Nature, and probable Utility of his Scheme, and receiving from him a very satisfactory Explanation, I not only subscrib’d
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Thomas Bond (American physician)
American physician
Thomas Bond (May 2, – March 26, ) was an American physician and surgeon.[1] In he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher.[2]
Education and professional life
[edit]Thomas Bond was born in Calvert County, Maryland, the son of Richard Bond and Elizabeth Chew. After studying medicin with Dr. Alexander Hamilton in Annapolis, he traveled to europe to complete his medical education, mainly in Paris. Dr. Bond then moved to Philadelphia where he practiced medicin for 50 years. In , he helped his long-time friend Benjamin Franklin establish the American Philosophical Society. Having formed a favorable opinion of British hospitals in the course of his studies, Bond began ansträngande to raise funds in to establish a place of care for both the sick and the mentally ill, part