Sep 9  A Distinguished Medical Career
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-09-09

La'Trice Ramsey, a senior at Natchez High School presents a Natchez History Minute about Dr. Albert Woods Dumas who was born on this day, September 9 in 1876.   In addition to his medical practice in Natchez, Dumas is credited with inventing a non-stopping trocar and cannula, a device for safely and effectively drawing blood.