elizabeth blackwell

     

Graduating from Geneva College in 1849, she became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.

Trivia about elizabeth blackwell

  • Losing sight in the eye meant she couldn't perform surgery, but she became the USA's first woman doctor
  • In 1852 this first U.S. woman doctor published her lectures on "The Physical Education of Girls"
  • In 1949 the American Medical Women's Assoc. named an award for this pioneer who got her degree in 1849
  • Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875