Accessed October 10, Hobart and William Smith College. NIH, U. National Library of Medicine. Thomson, Elizabeth H. Boyer, eds. Cambridge: Belknap Press, Elizabeth Blackwell, Biography. Weatherford, Doris. New York: Macmillan General Reference, How to Cite this page. Additional Resources. Elizabeth Blackwell. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Kline, Nancy. Elizabeth Blackwell: A Doctor's Triumph.
Berkeley: Conari Press, Sahli Nancy Ann. Elizabeth Blackwell, M. New York: Arno Press, Latham, Jean Lee. As she was granted her degree, Charles Lee , the dean of the college, stood up from his chair and made a courtly bow in her direction.
Blackwell traveled to Europe to continue her studies. She was acclaimed by her teachers as a superb obstetrician. On 4 November , Elizabeth accidentally sprayed contaminated solution in her left eye while treating an infant with a bacterial infection of the eyes.
Due to this unfortunate incident Blackwell lost sight in her left eye and was not able to pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon. In , along with Dr. The institution evolved into the Lower Manhattan Hospital. Blackwell also continued activities in Britain and on 1 January , she became the first woman whose name was on the UK Medical Register. Established in , it was the first medical school in Britain to train women. She retired from the medical profession in After her retirement she became more involved in her work as a social and moral reformer both in U.
In , while holidaying in Scotland, Blackwell suffered serious injuries after falling down a flight of stairs. The accident disabled her both mentally and physically. On 31 May , Blackwell died at the age of 90 at her home in Hastings in England, after suffering a paralytic stroke. Blackwell was against slavery. She also published several important books on the issue of women in medicine, including Medicine as a Profession For Women in and Address on the Medical Education of Women in Both for financial reasons and because her father wanted to help abolish slavery, the family moved to America when Elizabeth was 11 years old.
Her father died in As adults, his children campaigned for women's rights and supported the anti-slavery movement. Blackwell wrote that she was initially repelled by the idea of studying medicine. She said she had "hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book My favourite studies were history and metaphysics, and the very thought of dwelling on the physical structure of the body and its various ailments filled me with disgust.
She claimed that she turned to medicine after a close friend who was dying suggested she would have been spared her worst suffering if her physician had been a woman. Blackwell had no idea how to become a physician, so she consulted with several physicians known by her family.
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