Charles Burleigh Purvis (1842-1919),US physician. Purvis graduated as a medical doctor in 1865,studying at Wooster Medical College,Cleveland,Ohio. He worked as a surgeon at Howard University in Washington DC. This was one of the universities that pioneered African-American education after the emancipation of the slaves. Purvis was one of the first African-American doctors,and one of the first African-American doctors made officers in the US Army (during the Civil War). Artwork published in 1887 | |
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