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Albert C. Johnston (born 1900/1901 – June 23, 1988) [ 1] was a doctor described as part-black and of mixed parentage [ 1] who, along with his family, passed as white in Gorham and then Keene, New Hampshire. William Lindsay White wrote a Reader's Digest article about the family and a short book was published from it in 1948 titled, Lost ...
Plague doctor. Copper engraving of a plague doctor of 17th-century Rome. Wikimedia Commons has media related to plague doctors. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague [ 1] during epidemics mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries. These physicians were hired by cities to treat infected patients regardless of income ...
Harvard Medical School ( M.D., 1953) University of Minnesota (PhD, Neurosurgery, 1962) Occupation. Neurosurgeon. Robert Joseph White (January 21, 1926 – September 16, 2010) was an American neurosurgeon and bioethicist best known for his work on hypothermia and his experiments with head transplants on mammals, including living monkeys.
The sonic screwdriver is a fictional multifunctional tool [1] in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its spin-offs, used by the Doctor.Like the TARDIS, it has become one of the icons of the programme, and spin-off media such as The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood have replicated its functions in devices such as the sonic lipstick, sonic blaster, sonic probe ...
Katz extractor. to remove nasal foreign body. Bull's eye lamp. source of light; exiting lens is convex and produces a divergent beam of light. Speculum. to dilate orifices and to see inside. •Thudichum's nasal speculum. -do-; short blades ( uses: anterior rhinoscopy - to see the Little's area, ant-inferior part of nasal septum, anterior part ...
An estimated 1.1 million Black people live in Mississippi, but there are fewer than 600 Black doctors. Jerrian Reedy was […] Mississippi lacks Black doctors, even as lawmakers increasingly ...
James McCune Smith. James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree. His M.D. was awarded by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland. After his return to the United States, he also became the first African ...
Scientific career. Institutions. Duke University School of Medicine. Damon Scott Tweedy is an American physician who is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2015 Tweedy published his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine .