healthcare in the Antebellum South

Happy  Hump Day Obots! Continuing on with the theme..   Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler (February 8,1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician. She was the first African American woman to become a physician in the United States. (Rebecca Cole was the second and Susan McKinney Steward the third.) Her publication of A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883 was one of the … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Historical Firsts