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Elizabeth Blackwell

British American physician
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Elizabeth Blackwell (born February 3, 1821, Counterslip, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died May 31, 1910, Hastings, Sussex) was an Anglo-American physician who is considered the first woman doctor of medicine in modern times. Elizabeth Blackwell was of a large, prosperous, and cultured family and was well educated by private tutors. Financial reverses and the family’s liberal social and religious views prompted them to immigrate to the United States in the summer of 1832. Soon after taking up...

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