Samuel A. Cartwright, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel A. Cartwright

American physician

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1793

Place of Birth: Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 02-May-1863

Profession: writer, physician, surgeon, military physician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Samuel Adolphus Cartwright (November 3, 1793 – May 2, 1863) was a physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States.
Cartwright is best known as the inventor of the 'disease' of drapetomania and an outspoken critic of germ theory.
During the American Civil War he joined the Confederate States of America and was assigned the responsibility of improving sanitary conditions in the camps about Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Port Hudson, Louisiana.