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An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race: Beginnings to 1900 (Routledge, 2012). Deutsch, Albert. 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.
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 ...
Thomas Bond (May 2, 1713 – March 26, 1784) was an American physician and surgeon. [1] In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher. [2]
He was one of the first American physicians to become famous in Europe. [5] He openly boasted that he was the second-wealthiest doctor in the country. [6] However, as medical ethicist Barron H. Lerner states, "one would be hard pressed to find a more controversial figure in the history of medicine."
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.
After studying at the New England Female Medical College, in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States. [a] Crumpler was also one of the first female physician authors in the nineteenth century. [4] In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses. The book has two parts that cover ...
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.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search; Singer, Charles, and E. Ashworth Underwood. A Short History of Medicine (2nd ed. 1962) Watts, Sheldon. Disease and Medicine in World History (2003), 166pp online Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine