Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States (1849) and the first woman to have her name on the British medical register (1859). She opened the Woman’s Medical College in New York (1868). She was appointed professor of gynecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (1875).
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