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Panel 6: Hyde Park Scenes, Late 1780's
Location : Hyde Park, NY
Description : Panel 6
In the late 1780s. Dr. John Bard and Dr. Samuel Bard examine their new Italian melons,
fertilized with gypsum. The latter's pockets bulge as usual with plants -
a flock of wild pigeons fly across the sky. These two men were New York's most distinguished
physicians - Dr. John, a friend of Benjamin Franklin and a member of his Club, was the first
president of the New York Medical Society; with Dr. Peter Middleton performed the first
dissection for instruction; and the first diagnosis of and successful operation for extra
uterine pregnancy recorded in the colonies. As what was virtually public health officer he
fought yellow fever and recommended the purchase of Bedloe's Island as a quarantine station.
Dr. Samuel, who studied in Edinborough, was on his return instrumental in founding the
Medical School of Kings College, later the College of Physicians and Surgeons, was its first
professor of medicine and President. He also was the first to agitate for a hospital. He
encouraged the local use of clover as a crop as well as other horticultural improvements and was
first president of the Society of Dutchess County for the Promotion of Agriculture (1806).
Although Loyalists the Bards were highly respected by both sides, Dr. Samuel taking care of
President Washington in 1789 with Dr. John as consultant. Listed Under:
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