Black Facts = 1959 (December 24) – Dr. Miles Vandahurst Lynk,physician and publisher of the Medical and Surgical Advisor, the first black medical journal, died in Memphis,TN. Physician and educator Miles Vandarhurst Lynk was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, on June 3, 1871 to parents who were former slaves. When Lynk was six years old, his father was killed in an accident which left Lynk to help his mother run the farm where they were living. Lynk’s mother encouraged him to attend school at least five months a year which he supplemented by reading at home which he later called “Pine Knot College.”He began teaching in Fayette County when he was seventeen, saving his money for further education. Lynk graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1891. #theraydiotwins
