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At a time when Columbia University is undertaking a long step forward in the better organization of medical education and research, and when the Society of the New York Hospital is celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its organization, it is appropriate that there should be reprinted for the information of this generation the prophetic Discourse upon the Duties of a Physician; with some Sentiments upon the Usefulness and the Necessity of a Public Hospital, delivered before the President and Governors of King s College at the commencement held on May i6, 1769, by Dr. Samuel Bard, Professor of the Practice of Medicine in Kings College, and also the discourse on medical education delivered at the medical commencement of the College of Physicians and Surgeons on A pril 6, 1819 when Dr. Bard was President of that College. The story of Dr. Samuel Bard slife is told in an address by Dr. Henry William Ducachet delivered before the New York Historical Society, August 14, 1821, and reprinted at Philadelphia in October, 1821 from the fourth volume of the American Medical Recorder. Of Huguenot descent. Dr. Bard was born in Philadelphia on A pril i, 1742 and in due time became the chief practitioner of medicine in the City and Province of New York. The first of the two discourses now reprinted, was delivered in 1769 as advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by what is now Columbia University. These two addresses, and particularly the first address, speak for themselves. They establish Dr. Bard sleadership in medical education in America and justify his reputation as prophet and seer.
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