From Kearsley, Derham learned about compound medicine focusing on curing throat illnesses,[3] as well as patient bedside manner.
[5] Upon Dr. Kearsley's death, Derham, then fifteen years old,[3] was moved between several different enslavers before finally settling with Dr. George West, a surgeon for a British regiment during the American Revolutionary War.
With some financial assistance from Dove, Derham opened a medical practice in New Orleans.
Rush something of medicine, and Lemuel Haynes, to whom Middlebury College gave an honorary A. M. in 1804.
These and others we may call the Revolutionary group of distinguished Negroes - they were persons of marked ability, leaders of a Talented Tenth, standing conspicuously among the best of their time.