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Jan 1, 1821 — Jan 1, 1910· 89 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AUTHOR

Elizabeth Blackwell

Also known as: Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910, Elizabeth 1821-1910 Blackwell

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Botanical illustrator best known as drawer and engraver of the plates for A Curious Herbal, published between 1737 and 1739. It illustrated medicinal plants in a reference work for the use of physicians and apothecaries.

Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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The history of women as healers dates back many centuries, long before the life of Elizabeth Blackwell.

— from Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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A curious herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physick...to which is added a short description of yr plants and their common uses in physick

1739

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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.

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Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium

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