To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
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About Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was a 19th-century American american physician. Elizabeth Blackwell was an English-American physician, notable as the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Kingdom. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social reformer, and was a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world