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M.D. John Bond
An early English physician and scholar, he is best remembered today for a striking 1753 medical work on nightmares and sleep disturbance. His life also linked medicine, classical learning, and public service in Tudor and early Stuart England.
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An Essay on the Incubus, or Night-mare
by M.D. John Bond
About the author
John Bond was an English physician and classical scholar who lived from about 1550 to 1612. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, and built a career that blended medicine with teaching and scholarship.
Alongside his medical work, he served as Master of the Free School at Taunton and later represented Taunton in Parliament. That mix of practical medicine, education, and civic life gives his story an unusually broad shape for a writer of the period.
Readers may also know his name from An Essay on the Incubus, or Night-mare, a medical text attributed to John Bond, M.D., and widely circulated in later editions. I could not confirm a reliable modern portrait of him from the sources I found, so no profile image is included.