diseases
being sanitary, and personal hygiene. She died in 1910.Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821. She was born in Bristol (England) and grew up in New York. Elizabeth always wanted to be a doctor and was not going to let the fact that she was a woman prevent her from doing what she loved. Many doors were closed to her simply because she was a woman. When she applied for Medical School, twenty-nine schools turned her down because she was a woman.
Finally Geneva College in Geneva, New York, admitted her. She interned and did her residency in hospitals in Europe. In 1851, she returned to New York as a physician. However, she still faced discrimination and prejudices. Male doctors ignored her, many hospitals wouldn't let her in the wards, and she had very few patients.
Elizabeth and her sister Emily opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in New York City in 1857. The hospital helped the poor and later a Medical School for Women was added. Elizabeth gained the recognition and respect from her colleagues and the community. She moved to England in 1869. She spent the rest of her years fighting to open the doors that were closed to her in the medical profession.
She wrote books and lectured on topics such as ways to prevent diseases
being sanitary, and personal hygiene. She died in 1910.
