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Nimura notes that even after graduation, the Blackwell sisters struggled to find patients. "The townspeople basically thought that any woman who wanted to study medicine was either wicked or insane." "There was the basic idea that a woman's sphere did not include anything professional," Nimura says. Nimura says Elizabeth was "greeted with everything from rejection to hilarity" during her years at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York. A few years later, her younger sister Emily followed in her footsteps, earning her own medical degree from the institution that would become Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.īiographer Janice Nimura tells the sisters' story in the new book, The Doctors Blackwell. She persisted and got her degree, becoming the first American woman to do so. medical school - in part because the male students thought her application was part of an elaborate prank. In the 1840s, Elizabeth Blackwell was admitted to a U.S. An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.
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