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This is an online version of an exhibit held at the National Library of Medicine, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., Jan. 23-Sept. 4, 1999
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Elizabeth Blackwell, aged 38.
Pencil drawing by Comptesse de Charnacee
Glasgow University Archives |
On the morning of Tuesday, January 23, 1849, a young woman ascended the platform of the
Presbyterian church in Geneva, N.Y., and received from the hands of the President of Geneva
Medical College a diploma conferring upon her the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Thus, after
many years of determined effort, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to complete a
course of study at a medical college and receive the M.D. degree. |
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