Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 - August 4, 1931) was an African American surgeon.^[1] He was known as one of the most skilled American surgeons of his era. Williams is known today for performing an early surgery on the pericardium, repairing a knife wound with the use of sutures. He performed this surgery at Provident Hospital, Chicago, on July 10, 1893, a hospital which he founded, and one of the few hospitals that welcomed African-Americans. He is sometimes credited as the first surgeon to perform a fully successful open heart surgery. Others had performed similar procedures, after which patients sometimes recovered, but did not survive long-term. Image File history File links Daniel_Hale_Williams. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Hollidaysburg is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, on the Juniata River, 7 Miles (11 km) south of Altoona. ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Idlewild: The Black Eden of Michigan by Ronald Stephens, published 2001 Idlewild is a vacation and retirement community in Yates Township, located in rural northwestern Michigan near the southeastern border of Lake County. ... The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is located in Chicago, Illinois, at 330 East Chicago Avenue. ... “Surgeon” redirects here. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... “Surgeon” redirects here. ... The pericardium is a double-walled sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels. ... For other uses, see Suture (disambiguation). ...

He was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, to Daniel and Sarah Price Williams, a middle-class free black family. In 1883, Williams graduated from the Chicago Medical College, known today as Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and began his medical career in the office of Surgeon General Henry Palmer in Janesville, Wisconsin. Hollidaysburg is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, on the Juniata River, 7 Miles (11 km) south of Altoona. ... // Freeman The term freeman was generally an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons who were not under legal restraint – usually for the payment of an outstanding debt, because of their continual drunkeness, because they had recently relocated, or because they were idle and... Northwestern University (NU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago. ... The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is located in Chicago, Illinois, at 330 East Chicago Avenue. ... Downtown Janesville looking south on Main Street (2004) Janesville is a city in southern Wisconsin. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

In 1893 Dr. Williams repaired the torn pericardium of James Cornish, who had suffered a knife wound to the heart. This was the second repair of a wound to the pericardium on record, the first having been performed by Dr. Henry Dalton.^[2] Even earlier successful pericardial surgeries were performed in the early 19th century by Francisco Romero, a Spanish surgeon, and Napoleon's physician, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey.^[3] Dr Henry C. Dalton was professor of abdominal and clinical surgery at Marion Sims College of Medicine, now part of the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. ... Francisco Romero (17XX - 1763) was a significant Spanish matador. ... Dominique Jean Larrey, portrait by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, beginning of 19th century. ...

During the administration of President Grover Cleveland, Dr. Williams was appointed as Surgeon-in-Chief of Freedman's Hospital in Washington, DC, another of the few hospitals that would admit African-Americans. In addition to organizing the hospital, Dr. Williams also established a training school for African-American nurses at the facility. Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837–June 24, 1908), was the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. ... Freedmans Hospital was established in 1862; it was founded by the secretary of the famous Civil war between the North and South United States of America. ... ...

Dr. Williams was a teacher of Clinical Surgery at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee and was an attending surgeon at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He worked hard to create more hospitals for African Americans. In 1895 he co-founded the National Medical Association for black doctors, and in 1913 he became a charter member and the only black in the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Williams died of a stroke on August 4, 1931 in Idlewild, Michigan. Meharry Medical College was founded in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee to provide health sciences education. ... Nashville redirects here. ... Cook County Hospital is the fictional hospital in the NBC series ER ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1898, Dr. Williams married Alice Johnson, daughter of the sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel and a maid. ^[4]. Moses Jacob Ezekiel (October 28, 1844, Richmond, Virginia - March 27, 1917, Italy) was a U.S. sculptor. ...

Williams was honoured, amongst others, for his achievements in the Stevie Wonder song Black Man, from the album Songs in the Key of Life.[1] Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. ... Songs in the Key of Life is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music), and is widely known and confirmed as Wonders magnum opus. ...

Trivia

Daniel Hale Williams is often confused with the other African American surgeon, Vivien Thomas. Although both are notable for performing the first heart surgery, Daniel Hale Williams had done before him. An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Vivien Theodore Thomas Vivien Thomas autobiography, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work With Alfred Blalock Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. ...

References

• Beatty, William K., Williams, Daniel Hale, American National Biography Online Feb. 2000.
• Yenser, Thomas (editor), Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, Who's Who in Colored America, Brooklyn, New York, 1930-1931-1932 (Third Edition)
• Harlan, et al (editors), Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 9, p.396
• Daniel Hale Williams article from Encyclopedia Britannica
• Buckler, Helen Daniel Hale Williams 1968. Pitman, New York.

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External links

• The Provident Foundation
• Profile of Daniel Hale Williams - The Black Inventor Online Museum