Daniel Hale Williams (1856 – 1931). African-American surgeon, who in 1893 performed what is referred to as "the first successful heart surgery". It was performed at Chicago's Provident Hospital, which he founded in 1891 as the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
His father, Daniel Hale Williams Jr., was the son of a Scots-Irish woman and a black barber. His mother, Sarah Price, was African-American.
In 1913, Williams was elected as the only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons.
In 1893, Williams became the first African American on record to have successfully performed pericardium surgery to repair a wound. On September 6, 1891, Henry Dalton was the first American to successfully perform pericardium surgery to repair a wound. Earlier successful surgeries to drain the pericardium, by performing a pericardiostomy were done by Francisco Romero in 1801 and Dominique Jean Larrey in 1810.
Williams
was married in 1898 to Alice Johnson, natural daughter of the
Jewish-American sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel and a biracial maid.
- "Fondly known to his patients as ''Dr. Dan,'' the red-haired Williams was a brilliant physician..." https://www.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-xpm-1989-01-29...
- "... but Daniel himself, in adult life, could easily be mistaken for being white, with his light complexion, red hair and blue eyes." https://books.google.it/books?id=rYgRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA889...
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