James Derham was known for:
1. Started the first ambulance service.
2. Being the first nurse in what became the United States.
3. Being a black slave who worked as a nurse in New Orleans in the late 1700s.
4. Opening the first nursing college in the United States.
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Rationale 1: St. Camillus de Lellis started out as a soldier and later turned to nursing and developed the first ambulance service.
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