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Virginia laws make it illegal for enslaved people to administer medicine to each other.

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The law determines that enslaved people administering medicines without approval by their slaveholder is an act punishable by death. Despite this, enslaved people continue to practice African forms of healing, to learn and integrate Native and European forms of healing, and to provide care for each other despite the threat of death.