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Daniel Hale Williams

c. 1856 – 1931

Pennsylvania, Chicago and Washington, D.C., United States

Surgeon who helped found Chicago's interracial Provident Hospital and its nursing school in 1891, and in 1893 repaired a stab wound to a patient's pericardium, an early successful heart operation.

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Historical portrait photograph of surgeon Daniel Hale Williams, National Library of Medicine
Credit: Courtesy National Library of Medicine. License: Public domain.

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Sources

  1. Columbia University Department of Surgery, "Daniel Hale Williams and the First Successful Heart Surgery" (Scholarly)
  2. Ron Sims, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University, "Daniel Hale Williams, Surgeon, Educator & Medical Advocate" (timeline) (Primary source)
  3. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Daniel Hale Williams" (Primary source)

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