“At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.”
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a renowned British physician, was born on June 9, 1836, and passed away on December 17, 1917. She was the first woman in Britain to receive a medical degree and the first female to obtain a medical license. Her life and career made significant contributions to the fight for gender equality in the medical field. more
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