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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

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