Dr. Benjamin Bluitt was the first African-American surgeon in Texas and one of the first African-Americans to practice medicine in Dallas. His sanitarium -- today we would call it a hospital -- opened in 1905 and was the first Dallas hospital facility for African-Americans. (Doctor-owned hospitals were common in Dallas in the late 1800s and early 1900s.) This reproduction of the advertisement for Bluitt's Sanitarium probably appeared in the "Dallas City Directory" of 1911. The building still stands and is now a city of Dallas landmark.
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