Elizabeth Blackwell Facts
Elizabeth Blackwell Facts
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| Blackwell was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire England, the third of nine children. |
| Elizabeth's father, Samuel Blackwell believed strongly in education for all of his children and believed they should all be encouraged to develop their unique talents. |
| In 1830 Bristol experienced political upheavel and riots so the Blackwell family moved to New York. |
| On August 7, 1838 Samuel Blackwell died, leaving his widow and nine children deeply in debt. |
| To make ends meet Elizabeth and her older sisters, Anna and Marian opened a school, The Cincinnati English and French Academy for Young Ladies. |
| The long painful death of a dear friend of Blackwell's formed her desire to pursue medicine as a career. |
| Blackwell moved to Philadelphia where she boarded with Dr. William Elder and studied privately with Dr. Jonathan Allen while she applied to various medical schools. |
| She met a great deal of resistance from the male medical societies and was advised to go to Paris or disguise herself as a man. |
| In October 1847 she was accepted at the small Geneva Medical College in upstate New York. |
| On 23 January 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S to earn a medical degree after presenting her graduate thesis on typhus which linked physical health with socio-moral stability. |
| She left for France where she studied with the famous obstetrician, Paul Dubois. |
| In 1851 she returned to the U.S. and opened a private practice in New York City. |
| On 1858 she returned to England and under a clause in the Medical Act 1858 that recognized the degrees of foreign doctors, was able to become the first woman doctor to be register with the General Medical Council. |
| In 1895 she published her autobiography, Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women which sold only 500 copies. |
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