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(MEDICINE.) Burton, Thomas William. What Experience Has Taught Me: an Autobiography.
Plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth; inked note on the front pastedown, "For the Family." Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, (1910)
- Notes: first edition. Burton was one of 15 children born to slaves in Kentucky. After a difficult childhood and early life, Burton attended Berea College and later the Medical College of Indiana, gaining his degree in medicine in 1892. In that same year, Burton went to Springfield, Ohio, where he established a practice. In 1893, he became a surgeon with the army fighting in the Spanish-American War. In 1897 he helped found the first Negro Medical Society in Ohio.
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