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Daniel Hale Williams 2/15/2012 By Woojin Kim. Early Life . He was born in Hollidaysburg , Pennsylvania on January 18, 1858. He was the fifth of seventh children in his family. His family moved to Baltimore, Maryland because his father Daniel died. Early Life (Continued).
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Daniel Hale Williams 2/15/2012 By Woojin Kim
Early Life • He was born in Hollidaysburg,Pennsylvaniaon January 18, 1858. • He was the fifth of seventh children in his family. • His family moved to Baltimore, Maryland because his father Daniel died.
Early Life (Continued) • He became apprentice of shoemaker until he became teenager. • After three years, he learned how to cut hair and became barber and worked in his family’s barber shop in Janesville, Wisconsin. • He went to high school in Janesville and graduated Hare’s Classical Academy in 1877.
Early life (Continued) • While he was working in barber shop, he met Dr. Palmer, who was a surgeon. • William learned from Dr. Palmer for two years and in 1880 he entered the Chicago Medical school.
Early Life (Continued) • William learned from Dr. Palmer for two years and in 1880 he entered the Chicago Medical school. • He graduated Chicago Medical school in 1883 and opened his own medical office in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1883, He was the one of four African American Doctors at Chicago. • Dr. William practiced surgery and medicine at South Side Dispensary and instructor of anatomy at Northwest University. • He worked as medical doctor for a Civil Railroad Company and a Protestant Orphan Asylum. • In 1889, he appointed as Illinois Board of Health.
Hospital • On January 23, 1891 Dr. William established the first African American owned hospital, the Provident Hospital with twelve beds.
Hospital (Continued) • Also he established first nursing school for African Americans. • He employed White and African American doctors to Provident Hospital. • He told doctors to keep abreast of latest advances in medicine.
In 1893, James Cornish came to Provident Hospital with a stab wound to the chest. • During this time there was no X-ray machines, so the doctors didn’t know what to do.
Dr. William decided to do open surgery because James’s condition became deteriorate. • Dr. William opened Cornish’s chest and looked up for what he could do. • He found a pierced blood vessel and a tear to the pericardium tissue around the heart. • He sutured those injuries to stop bleeding and sewed his chest. • The surgery was successful.
Newspaper • The headlines of newspaper was "Sewed Up His Heart! Remarkable Surgical Operation on a Colored Man!”.
Dr. William became surgeon in chief at Freedom’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. • He organized specific departments like Medical, Surgical, Gynecological, Obstetrical, Dermatological, etc. • He helped to organize the National Medical Association Which was the only medical Organization for African Americans.
In 1989, Dr. William married Alice Johnson who was the school teacher. • He moved to Chicago after he resigned from the Freedom hospital. • He became a surgeon in chief at Provident Hospital. • He was often invited to speak to the doctor’s associations around the country on the subject of health care for African Americans.
Death • In 1926 he retired after suffering a stroke. • He died in Idlewild, Michigan, in 1931. • His wife Alice Johnson died in 1924.
Bibliography • Daniel hale Williams. “Daniel hale Williams.” Gibbs http://www.gibbsmagazine.com/DrWilliams.htm • Daniel Hale Williams. “Daniel hale Williams.” The Black inventors http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/daniel-williams.html
