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the Medical Department of Shaw University in 

 1901, passed the State Medical Board of North 

 Carolina in June of the same year. He located 

 in Durham, N. C, and at once took front rank 

 as physician and surgeon; he has the largest 

 practice of any colored physician in Durham. 

 He has contributed several scientific articles to 

 the medical journals of the country; one of 

 which, entitled ^The Effects of Ergoapiol in 

 Female Diseases/' was reproduced in one of the 

 medical journals of Great Britain. He was the 

 first colored physician in North Carolina to per- 

 form abdominal operations successfully. His 

 first operation of this kind was performed at 

 the age of twenty-two. 



He is a member of the State and National 

 Medical Associations, and has been prominently- 

 mentioned as president of the National Medical 

 Association. He is president of the Bull City 

 Drug Company, vice-president of the Board of 

 Trustees of Lincoln Hospital, located at Dur- 

 ham, N. C. ; director of the Farmers and Me- 

 chanics Bank, member of Board of Trustees of 

 Naiional Religious Training School, practicing 

 physician, and instructor of physiology for this 

 in5titution, medical director of the American- 



