Dangerous and controversial for religious reasons but applied during a seventeen twenty one smallpox epidemic only two percent requesting an occupation died compared to fifteen percent not kill ated who contract of smallpox later that same century james durham became the first African American to formally Practice Medicine in the usa although he never received an m. D. Degree durham was born into slavery in philadelphia and one of his owners was a physician who encouraged him to go into medicine durham worked as a nurse earning enough to purchase his freedom and seventeen ninety and he opened a medical practice in new orleans born in eight hundred thirty one in delaware rebecca lead crumpler is a knowledged as the u. S. Is first africanamerican woman physician she got her m. D. From the new England Female Medical College in eight hundred sixty four and worked on diseases that strike women and children a black man pioneered heart surgery dr Daniel Hale Williams founded Providence Hospit
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The time after Christmas and New Year is often a slower time for many as the business of the holidays is over. Unfortunately, that applies to blood donations as well.