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James Derham [1] (May 2, 1762 [2] —1802?) (also known as James Durham) [3] was an American physician and emancipated slave who was the first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States. [4] Despite practicing medicine he never received an M.D. degree.
The mentally ill in America-A History of their care and treatment from colonial times (1937). Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine (2nd ed. 1993) Duffy, John. The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health (1990) Grob, Gerald M. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America (2002) online
Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. A Black American, he founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
Bradbury Robinson — threw the first legal forward pass in American football history while a medical student at St. Louis University; Peter Mark Roget — English lexicographer; Jacques Rogge — sports official; Mowaffak al-Rubaie — human rights advocate, member of the Interim Iraqi Governing Council; Benjamin Rush — signer of the United ...
By 1886, he had 16 graduate physicians working in his laboratory – the first postgraduate training program for physicians in the country. [1] He helped the trustees recruit the other founding physicians for the hospital – William Stewart Halsted, William Osler, and Howard Kelly. Welch became head of the Department of Pathology when the ...
In “The Six: The Untold Stories of America’s First Women Astronauts,” Loren Grush recounts the pressures and challenges faced by NASA’s first class of female astronauts.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... 1870 – April 16, 1960) was an American physician and one of the first women to practice medicine in ...
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