ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
\ɪlˈɪzəbəθ blˈakwɛl], \ɪlˈɪzəbəθ blˈakwɛl], \ɪ_l_ˈɪ_z_ə_b_ə_θ b_l_ˈa_k_w_ɛ_l]\
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A noted American physician and medical and ethical writer; born at Bristol, England, 1821. She is the first woman that ever obtained the degree of M. D. in the United States (1849), beginning practice in New York (1851). With her sister Emily, she opened the New York infirmary for women and children (1854), organizing in connection with it the Women's Medical College (1867). In 1868 she became professor in a woman's medical college that she had assisted in organizing in London. She has written. "Laws of Life" (1852); "Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of their Children" (1879); "Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women"; "The Human Element in Sex".
By Charles Dudley Warner
