An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

COBB, William Montague

2 entries
  • 6594

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.



Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY › History of Black People & Medicine & Biology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American South, Societies and Associations, Medical, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Washington, DC
  • 12814

Medical care and the plight of the Negro.

New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1947.


Subjects: BLACK PEOPLE & MEDICINE & BIOLOGY