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    Elizebeth Blackwell

  • Blackwell's Birth

    Blackwell was born in 1821 on Feb. 3rd in Bristol, UK.

  • Receiving a Degree

    In 1849 she became the first women to receive a M.D. from an American medical school.

  • Founding an Infirmary

    In 1857 she founded the New York Infirmary for women and children

  • Dying from a disease

    Elizebeth Blackwell died from an eye disease that she caught from a young patient.

  • A friends insparation

    Her insparation came from her friend who was dying and said she would have felt more comfortable if her physician had been a women.