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Chronology of Achievements of Black Americans in Medicine

Posted on by Tangie

Black Americans in Medicine including Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893 and founded Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses (the first black-owned hospital in America in 1891.

To review medical achievements by other Black American doctors, click on the ling: https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/blackhistorymonth/chronology

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