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The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1939.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

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Entry Number#6594
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/8501
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-first-negro-medical-society-a-history-of-the-medicochirurgical-society-of-the-district-of-columbia

Geographic Context

Publication place: Washington, DC