The London School of Medicine for Women established in 1874 was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. The patrons, vice-presidents, and members of the committee that supported
London School of Medicine for Women, Hunter Street.
Royal Free Hospital – School of Medicine for Women, Hunter Street.
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Coun
London School of Medicine for Women
…School. The school was formed in 1874 by an association of pioneering women physicians Sophia Jex-Blake, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Emily Blackwell and Elizabeth Blackwell with Thomas Henry Huxley. The founding was motivated at least in part by Jex-Blake's frustrated attempts at getting a medical degree at a time when…
Elizabeth Blackwell
Plaque at Blackwell's family home in Bristol, England, 2010
A plaque commemorating Blackwell's medical studies in Asheville, North Carolina
Portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell by Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, 1963. Collection of SUNY Upstate Medical University.