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Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. As a girl, she moved with her family to the United States, where she first worked as a teacher. Despite widespread opposition, she later decided to attend medical college and graduated first in her class, thus also becoming the first woman to receive her M.D. in the United States. She created a medical school for women in the late 1860s, eventually returning to England and setting up private practice. Blackwell died on May 31, 1910, in Hastings.
Background and Education
Physician and educator Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. Brought up in a liberal household that stressed education, Blackwell eventually broke into the field of medicine to become the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States.
In 1832, Blackwell and her family moved to the United States, first settling in New York and later moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. After her father’s death in 1838, Blackwell (who was versed in French and German), her mother and two older sisters all worked as educators to make ends meet.
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Autobiography
Under the Cherry Tree. By Robert Hughes Parry. (Pp. 163; illustrated. 25s.) Llandysul: Gomerian Press. 1969.
Robert Hughes Parry is known internationally
as a perfervid Welshman, as a leading British
authority on the teaching and practice of social
medicine, and as a most distinguished former
Medical Officer of Health of Bristol-one of
the most progressive cities in England.
From retirement in a garden in Wales he
has written a charming, gossipy, anecdotal
autobiography in which he mixes stories of
his activities in America during and after the
war-under the aegis of the Ministry of
Information-with accounts of advisory visits
by invitation to Greece, Iran, and other coun-
tries, and of a jaunt to Australia and New
Zealand for a B.M.A. meeting. The world is
full of his friends and admirers, and his book
reflects his cheerful but basically sound
philosophy. His comments on overcentraliza-
tion of health administration and on local
government organization are worthy of close
study, as is his advice on the conduct of visiting
technical advisers in countries with civiliza-
tions older than our own.
He is to be congratulated on a most readable
book which, with its numerous photographs
of the Parry family and of people met on his
travels, will give pleasure to a host of friends
this winter.