Elizabeth Blackwell was not only the first woman to graduate from medical school, earning an MD degree, she also graduated first in her class. Blackwell served as a doctor for the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, she founded the Women’s Medical College in New York with her sister Emily Blackwell, who had also become a doctor. Elizabeth Blackwell died May 31, 1910.
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3 comments:
I think that is so cool how Elizabeth was one of the docters for the Union Army during the Civil War!!!
-Emma
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