Samuel A. Cartwright
American physician
Died when: 69 years 180 days (833 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Samuel Adolphus Cartwright (November 3, 1793 – May 2, 1863) was an American physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States.
Cartwright is best known as the inventor of the 'mental illness' of drapetomania, the desire of a slave for freedom, and an outspoken critic of germ theory.
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