Today Google in United States and United Kingdom Celebrate Elizabeth Blackwell.
She was the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree, an active champion
of women's rights, and an abolitionist, Elizabeth Blackwell was nothing if not a pioneer.
Elizabeth Blackwell once said she turned to medicine after a close friend who was dying
suggested she would have been spared her worst suffering if her physician had been a woman.
She graduated from New York's Geneva Medical College, in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became
the first woman in America to earn the M.D. degree.
She supported medical education for women and helped many other women's careers.
By establishing the New York Infirmary in 1857, she offered a practical solution to
one of the problems facing women who were rejected from internships elsewhere but determined
to expand their skills as physicians.
She also wrote and issued several important books on the issue of women in medicine, including
Medicine as a Profession For Women in 1860 and Address on the Medical Education of Women
in 1864.
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in 1821, to Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell.
Both for financial reasons and because her father wanted to help abolish slavery, the
family moved to America when Elizabeth was 11 years old.
Her father died in 1838.
As adults, his children campaigned for women's rights and supported the anti-slavery movement.
As her health declined, Blackwell gave up the practice of medicine in the late 1870s,
though she still campaigned for reform.
She died on 31st May 1910 at the age of 89 at Hastings, Sussex in England
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