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Dr. Samuel Bard, (1742–1821, opened a second colonial medical school, King's College, now called Columbia University School of Medicine, in 1768 in New York City. He was a personal physician to the first President of the United States, George Washington. His description of diphtheria was instrumental in formulating treatment for that condition.  These would be the only two medical schools located in the American colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War.