Solomon Carter Fuller

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Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller (1872-1953) was a pioneering African-American psychiatrist who made significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease. He was born in Liberia, the son of an American slave who had purchased his freedom and emigrated there. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine, which as a homeopathic institution, was open to both African-American and women students. He spent the majority of his career practicing at Westborough State Mental Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts. While there, he performed his ground-breaking research on the physical changes to the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

For most of his life, he lived in nearby Framingham, Massachusetts with his wife, the famous sculptor, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller.

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• John Potter, “Solomon Carter Fuller.” Doctors, Nurses and Medical Practitioners: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook pp. 116-119, Lois N. Magner, ed. (Westport: (Greenwood Press, 1998).