Daniel Hale Williams - Introduction: African American Doctor
Daniel Hale Williams is credited with having performed open
heart surgery on July 9, 1893 before such surgeries were
established. In 1913, Daniel Hale Williams Williams was the only
African American member of the American College of Surgeons.
Daniel Hale Williams - Famous Operation: Daniel Hale Williams
successfully operated on James Cornish, the victim of a knifing.
The operation was considered at the time a ground-breaking. The
doctor opened the patient's chest revealing a beating heart to
stitch a small wound in the pericardium, the sac surrounding the
heart. Daniel Hales Williams - Other Achievements: Daniel Hales
Williams utilized many of the emerging antiseptic, sterilization
procedures of the day and thereby gained a reputation for
professionalism. The doctor began his medical practice in
Chicago at a time when there were only three other black
physicians. In 1891, in Chicago, Daniel Hales Williams founded
Provident, the first American interr