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Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, – May 31, ) was a British-American physician, author, medical sociologist, and moral reformer.

She is known as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.

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• In when I resolved to become a physician, six eminent physicians, in different parts of the country were written to, for advice.

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They all united in dissuading me, stating, "That it was an utter impossibility for a woman to obtain a medical education; that the idea though good in itself, was eccentric and utopian, utter impracticable!" It was only by long-continued searching through all the colleges of the country, that one was at last found willing to grant admission.

When I entered college in , the ladies of the town pronounced the undertaking crazy, or worse and declared that they would die rather than employ a woman as a physician. In , when establishing myself in New York there was the utmost difficulty in finding a boarding house wh