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Bard, John

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Bard, John (1716-1799)

US physician. He performed the first recorded dissection of a cadaver in the USA for the purpose of instruction in 1750, and the first surgical delivery of a live foetus in 1759. He was a precursor of the public sanitation movement in New York City, advocating measures to prevent the spread of yellow fever.



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