I found this advertisement placard in a vinyl album, and decided to play the card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams
Edit pictures of the card https://pixelfed.ca/p/bane_killgrind/821853386900164062
This wasn’t the first open heart surgery… opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says “heart surgery.” In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first ‘open heart surgery’ isn’t until 1952.
I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.
Ah I did not know the difference, you are correct
https://columbiasurgery.org/news/daniel-hale-williams-and-first-successful-heart-surgery
Edit I fixed the title thank you
It’s not a big deal, just one of those things that was jarring to read because I knew I had heard it differently in the past. It’s more irritating to me that I knew the ‘open heart surgery’ thing well, and hadn’t heard about this. Shows what some people are concerned with.
Fascinating, truly.
I don’t mean this in a negative way but I’m so sick of the narrative that skin color has anything to do with people’s capabilities.
I think everyone is, especially the people who are thought of as less capable by the colour their skin
Brown skinned and for present day things I’d say race shouldn’t matter… But for fucking 1893? Just 30 years after the civil war? Can you imagine the challenges they faced in society during that time? It was probably double or triple as hard to get where they were vs if a white man had followed the same path.
It doesn’t. This surgeon was motivated enough to help people that he opened his own practice to do it, and that motivation helped people.
The thing is that people think (let’s face it, it’s not thought) that POC are somehow less intelligent.
People being a very specific group here since POC certainly don’t think that.
It has seemed for years that, with a large population of people with a superiority complex over others, Americans keep feeling the need to convince everyone that non-white people are, and have always been, just as useful and talented as white people.
Another take is “Breaking! People achieve things… And some of those people have skin tones darker than pure ivory. Amaze!”
what’s interesting in this case is the year, 1893, people were really racist back then
ditto but for me it’s the constant men vs women sex rage bait
This isn’t that.
The card I found was made during an era where civil rights had a massive leap forward. These kind of stories were not about people being better, they were about people deserving an opportunity to participate.
I didn’t say your post was that
