Black Man’s Medical Knowledge Devises Treatment for STDs, Skin​

Date: 1729​

Who: Individual known as “Papan”​

Where: Unkown city, Virginia ​

What: Due to his early effective treatment of skin and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Virginia legislature freed Papan so he could practice medicine.​

Learn more here​

Savitt, T. L. (2002). Medicine and slavery: The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia. University of Illinois Press.​

Williams, R. A., & Williams, R. A. (2020). Profiles in Courage: African American Medical Pioneers in the United States—The Earliest Black Practitioners. Blacks in Medicine: Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations, 33-59