The First Woman Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.

246 pp. "This small, well-bred woman with her shy manner and Quaker-like bonnets, was not only the first woman to graduate from a medical college, the first woman to enter an American hospital as an interne, the first woman to be enrolled on the Medical Register of Great Britain, she was also the founder of a great woman's hospital, staffed by women, operated by women, for women and children alone. She founded the first school of nursing in America. She helped to establish the battlefield nursing services of the Civil War. She founded a medical school for women, introducing new subjects and a longer, more thorough, course than that offered at any American college. She taught health education, hygiene, preventative medicine, in a day when these words were strange, new, and even the medical giants had not recognized them."