Unfortunately, Williams was so busy with other matters, he did not bother to document the event and others made claims to have first achieved the feat of performing open heart surgery. Fifty one days later, James Cornish walked out of Provident Hospital completely recovered and would go on to live for another fifty years. He saw the damage to the man’s pericardium (sac surrounding the heart) and sutured it, then applied antiseptic procedures before closing his chest. Williams made the decision to operate and opened the man’s chest. Internal operations were unheard of because any entrance into the chest or abdomen of a patient would almost surely bring with it resulting infection and therefore death. By the time he was transported to Provident Hospital he was seeking closer and closer to death, having lost a great deal of blood and having gone into shock. Williams was faced with the choice of opening the man’s chest and possibly operating internally when that was almost unheard of in that day in age. Two and a half years later, on July 9, 1893, a young Black man named James Cornish was injured in a bar fight, stabbed in the chest with a knife. Much can be attributed to Williams insistence on the highest standards concerning procedures and sanitary conditions.
For a brand new hospital, at that time, to see an 87% success rate was phenomenal considering the financial and health conditions of the patient, and primitive conditions of most hospitals. Within its first year, 189 patients were treated at Provident Hospital and of those 141 saw a complete recovery, 23 had recovered significantly, three had seen change in their condition and 22 had died. The school also served to train Black nurses and utilized doctors of all races. On JanuDaniel Hale Williams established the Provident Hospital and Training School Association, a three story building which held 12 beds and served members of the community as a whole. In 1889 he was appointed to the Illinois State Board of Health and one year later set for to create an interracial hospital. He was soon appointed as a surgeon on the staff of the South Side Dispensary and then a clinical instructor in anatomy at Northwestern. In doing so, Williams utilized many of the emerging antiseptic, sterilization procedures of the day and thereby gained a reputation for professionalism. After graduation from Northwestern in 1883, he opened his own medical office in Chicago, Illinois.īecause of primitive social and medical circumstances existing in that era, much of Williams early medical practice called for him to treat patients in their homes, including conducting occasional surgeries on kitchen tables. Henry Palmer) for two years and in 1880 entered what is now known as Northwestern University Medical School. He began working as an apprentice to the physician (Dr. After moving to nearby Janesville, Daniel became fascinated with a local physician and decided to follow his path. He later moved to Edgerton, Wisconsin where he joined his sister and opened his own barber shop. Daniel was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Baltimore but ran away to join his mother who had moved to Rockford, Illinois. Daniel’s mother realized she could not manage the entire family and sent some of the children to live with relatives. Daniel’s father was a barber and moved the family to Annapolis, Maryland but died shortly thereafter of tuberculosis. He was the fifth of seven children born to Daniel and Sarah Williams. Daniel Hale Williams was born on Januin Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
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