New Acquisitions on the History of Blacks and Medicine

As I have been going through the 23 cases of books which we recently re-acquired from the Maryland Center for History and Culture, I found some books on the history of Blacks and medicine. Please excuse the poor quality of the photos.

The first one I discovered was "The First Negro Medical Society: The History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Washington, D.C." which was active from 1884-1939. It was written by W. Montague Cobb, A.B., M.D., PhD., who was a professor of anatomy at Washington DC's Howard University, and was written in 1939. 

Here is the list of chapters which wend their way through the history of the organization.

The second book is "A Century of Black Surgeons, Vol. II." I haven't come across Vol. I yet, but I am hoping that I do. 

This book was published in 1987, and is a series of stories about people and institutions. Here's a sample:

You will see on this list Mr. Vivien Thomas, who assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock at Johns Hopkins. 

Next up is "Negros for Medicine: A Report of a Macy Conference." It was published in 1968 in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Here is a list of the participants in the conference, which was held in June of 1967.

Finally, there is the book, "Germs Have No Color Line: Blacks and American Medicine, 1900-1940." This was published in 1989 by Vanessa Northington Gamble. This looks to be a series of articles taken from various medical journals over the years. 

If you would like to see any of these books, please email me and we can set up an appointment for you to visit.