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i dont know who mike is but man I applaud you, you have forced me to learn more about blacks in a day then 4 years at USF you-da-man ( I am being serious)
Did you know?
Jane Cooke Wright developed anticancer drugs.
Daniel Hale Williams was the first doctor to successfully perform open-heart surgery.
Michael Croslin computerized blood pressure device.
Percy Lavon Julian synthesized physotigmine, a drug used for the treatment of glaucoma.
Otis Boykin invented pace maker controls.
Phil Brooks invented the disposable syringe.
Charles Richard Drew developed a way to preserve blood, created the first blood bank, the American Red Cross, and developed a method to efficiently store blood plasma. He also developed a means of preserving blood plasma for transfusion. He was a surgeon, medical scientist and educator.
Dewey Sanderson invented urinalysis machine
Vivien Theodore Thomas worked on experiments on surgical shock and blue baby syndrome.
Benjamin S. Carson is the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the nation.
William Augustus Hinton was responsible for the Hinton test for syphilis. He also discovered the Davies-Hinton test of blood and spinal fluid.
Roscoe L. Koontz was the first formally trained health physicist .
Samuel Lee Kountz, Jr. discovered a technique that allows doctors to monitor the fall of the kidney blood supply following transplant surgery and to give certain amounts of drugs to patients to overcome rejection.
Rebecca J. Cole was the first black woman to graduate from the Woman?s Medical College in PA. Cole worked with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white American woman physician to receive a medical degree
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