Dr.Elizabeth Blackwell

1821 - Elizabeh was born in Bristol, Engand.

 

 

 

1832 - The Blackwell family immigrated to New York.

 

 

 

1845 - Elizabeth went to Asheville, where she read medicine in the home of Dr. John Dickson.

 

 

1847 - She was accepted to study as a student at Geneva Medical College.

 

 

1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell graduated Geneva Medical College to become the first female medical student of the time.

 

 

 

 

1852 - She wrote and published a book on her lectures called 'Laws of Life'

 

 

 

1854 - She adopted Katherine Barry as her own daughter.

 

 

 

1857- Elizabeth, along with her sister Emily and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, founded the New York Infirmary.

 

 

 

1859 - She became the first female to have her name on the General Medical Council's Register.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1863 - Elizabeth and her sister, Emily, both help out in the Civil War as nurses.

 

 

 

1874 - Elizabeth helped start the London School of Medicine for Women.

 

 

 

 

 

1895 - "Pioneer Work in the Opening the Medical Profession to Women", her autobiography got published.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell passed in Hastings, Sussex England.