Bard, Samuel

an American physician, B. at Philadelphia, on 1st April, 1742. He studied medicine at London and Edinburgh, where he received his M.D. degree in 1765. On his return to his native country, he founded at New York a school of medicine, a public library, and a hospital for the use of the pupils. Among the latter was the illustrious Washington. In 1813, he was nominated President of the College of Surgeons at New York. D. 24th May, 1821. Bard, in Pennsylvania, a village of Bedford county, in Harrison township. Bard, in So. Dakota, a village of Hanson co. Bard'ed, a. ( Antiq. ) Wearing defensive armor: as barded horses. ( Her .) Richly caparisoned; as, " barded , and richly trapped." - Stow . Bardesanists, ( bar - de'sa -nists,) n. pl. (Eccl. Hist .) A Christian sect which flourished in Me so pot am i a, from A. D. 161 to 180. They were the followers of Barde sanes, of Ede a, who at one time advocated the tenets of Val ent in us, the Egyptian, though he afterwards abjured them. Mosheim contends against this view, declaring that Barde sanes admitted two principles, like the Manichæans. His followers denied the Incarnation and the Resurrection, and continued to exist as late as the 5th century.