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Elizabeth Blackwell, born on February 3, 1821, and died on May 31, 1910, was an outstanding American medical doctor. She was the first woman in the world to receive a medical degree, profoundly influencing the status of women in the medical field.

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“It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.”

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“Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.”

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Book:Medicine as a Profession for Women

Source: Medicine as a Profession for Women

About the Author

Born: February 3, 1821
Died: May 31, 1910
Known for: Medical Doctor
Quotes: 23

Books & Sources

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical SketchesRelated source material

Medicine as a Profession for WomenRelated source material

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