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#1 The question of whether or not to study medicine was raised with Elizabeth by Mary Donaldson, a neighbor who was dying of advanced uterine cancer. Elizabeth hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book.
#2 The practice of medicine in the first half of the 1800s was a gruesome business. Doctors would treat diseases with toxic metals, such...
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"In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth...
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