Born: February 3, 1821,
Bristol, England
Died: May 31, 1910,
Hastings, England
She was wonderfully, undeviatingly good, moving with calm sure hands and steady eyes ...
--From Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse, p. 141
The first female medical doctor in the United States, Elizabeth Blackwell founded a medical college for women.
Highlights
Elizabeth Blackwell received her doctor of medicine degree in 1849 from Geneva Medical School of Geneva College (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges) in New York.
With her sister, Emily, also a physician, she founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children (now the New York Infirmary) in 1853, the first such institution with an entirely female medical staff.
In 1868, she opened a medical college for women.
Living in London after 1869, she helped to found the National Health Society of London and the London School of Medicine for Women.
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