Phineas Bond (9)

Phineas Bond (13 September 1717–11 June 1773) was a physician, surgeon, and natural philosopher, as well as a founding member of the American Philosophical Society, an agent of its revival, and part of the committee that saw it unified with the American Society in 1769. Born into a Quaker family in Calvert County, Maryland, he studied medicine there under Dr. John Hamilton and, upon relocating to Philadelphia, under APS member John Kearsley, Sr. Thereafter, Bond opened an apothecary shop. In 1741 he went abroad, studying medicine in London, Paris, and Leiden. Upon his return, he began a successful medical practice with his brother (and fellow APS founder) Thomas Bond, Sr. He engaged in experimental cures, took on apprentices, and helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he volunteered his services as a physician until his death over twenty years later. Bond was also a director of the Library Company, an original trustee of the Academy of Philadelphia, and a member of the Society of the Sons of St. George. He was elected to the Philadelphia Common Council in 1747. In addition to his brother, his nephew Thomas Bond, Jr., was an APS member. (PI)