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Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol England.
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Elizabeth and her family moved to America in late April.
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After 29 school rejections she finally started at Geneva Medical College
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She became the first female to earn a medical degree in the U.S graduating top in her class
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Elizabeth returned to England with her English cousin there she enrolled at Paris’s maternity hospital, La Maternite` Unfortunately she could not become a surgeon because pus from an infant's wound infected her left eye leaving it blind.
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2 Years after Elizabeth returned to New York she opened The New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children
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Elizabeth her sister, Emily, and qualified physician Marie Zakrzewska raised enough funds from The New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children donors so they could open a hospital, The New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children
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Elizabeth became a nurse during the civil war for the soldiers on Union
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Elizabeth accepted the chair of Gynecology at the London School of Medicine after going back to England in 1869. She only stayed there for a year until becoming sick
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Elizabeth died in Hastings, United Kingdom from a stroke
