Let’s raise a glass to the African-American medical pioneers who changed the world

Mildred Europa Taylor February 09, 2021
Let's raise a glass to the African-American medical pioneers who changed the world
A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts (Boston: Cashman, Keating & Co., Printers, 1883) by Rebecca Crumpler, M. D.

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Born on February 8, 1831, in Delaware, Crumpler, having spent time with her aunt who catered to the sick, got moved to pursue medical training. Between 1852 and 1860, Crumpler practiced as a nurse in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, MA, before graduating from the New England Female Medical College in 1864, when she became the first Black female physician in the United States. She cared for formerly enslaved Black people at a time few white doctors would see Black patients. In her Book of Medical Discourses, published in 1883, she wrote that her aim was to “relieve the suffering of others.”

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