Charles Burleigh Purvis was a prominent physician in Washington, D.C. who also was a founding member of Howard University Medical School. Purvis was the first black physician to attend a sitting president, he attended President James Garfield after he was shot by an assassin in 1881. Purvis was born in Philadelphia on April 14, 1842. […]
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