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Thomas Bond (American physician)
American physician
Thomas Bond (May 2, 1713 – March 26, 1784) was an American physician and surgeon.[1] In 1751 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
Thomas Bond was born in Calvert County, Maryland, the son of Richard Bond and Elizabeth Chew.
After studying medicine with Dr. Alexander Hamilton in Annapolis, he traveled to Europe to complete his medical education, mainly in Paris.
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Dr. Bond then moved to Philadelphia where he practiced medicine for 50 years. In 1743, 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 trying to raise funds in 1750 to establish a place of care for both the sick and the m