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in bristol, england. her parents were samuel blackwel and hannah blackwell.
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elizabeth and family relocated from england to new york city, usa
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The family had to struggle for survival. Her father’s business was in a loss.
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In August, Samuel Blackwell died.
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1Mrs. Samuel Blackwell and her daughters Elizabeth, Anna and Marian opened a private school in Cincinnati. Initially, Elizabeth Blackwell taught in her mother’s school. It was during this period that the idea of becoming a physician struck her.
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Elizabeth Blackwell moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as she wanted to pursue the study of medicine in a college. She was admitted by Geneva College in New York City. She began attending her classes from November 1847
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after the first Convention of Woman’s Rights in Seneca Falls
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Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded her medical degree in January 1849. She became the first woman physician in the US. the American medical fraternity banned her from practicing. She left for England where she worked and studied medicine in hospitals in Birmingham and London. In St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London she met Florence Nightingale
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Here she was allowed to practice provided she pursued the course in mid-wifery. During this period she contracted purulent ophthalmia. As a result of this eye disease she had to remove her eye which prevented her from fulfilling her dream of becoming a surgeon
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in the slums of New York City. Women and children were her patients. Her sister, Dr. Emily, and Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska, later joined her.
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this included a medical college for women, opened in 1867
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She left for the US the same year and her friend Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska came over to England where she opened a hospital called New England Hospital for Woman and Children.
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Civil War broke out in the US. On April 29th, Elizabeth Blackwell with the help of 3000 women formed an association called the Women’s Central Association for Relief (WCAR).
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This college was opened in New York City. This was the first American medical school for women.
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She published a book called The Religion of Health. She helped to form the National Health Society in England.
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Elizabeth along with her sister Emily Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Sophia Jex Blake and Thomas Henry Huxley founded it. It was associated with the Women’s Medical College of New York City
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forced her to retire from her teaching profession at the London School of Medicine
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She was in Hastings at the time of her death. Elizabeth Blackwell was buried in Kilmun, Argyllshire in the Highlands of Scotland.