Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women : autobiographical sketches / Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.

  • Elizabeth Blackwell
Date:
1895
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Credit: Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women : autobiographical sketches / Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Anderson, lives to see the great success of her difficult and brave work. These addresses were afterwards given in Man- chester, Birmingham, and Liverpool; Mr. Brace- bridge kindly making arrangements for them in Birmingham and the Bev. W. H. Charming in Liverpool. The interest thus excited in London led to some effort being made to commence in England similar work to that being done in America. A meeting of ladies was held at the St. John's Wood residence of Mrs. Peter Taylor, over which Mr. William Shaen presided. A committee was formed to consider the subject, and encouraged by the offer of help made by the Countess de Noailles, a circular was prepared, stating the object to be accomplished and inviting support. This circular, which was revised by Dr. Mayo, Lady Byron, Mr. Shaen, and the Hon. Russell G-urney, was gradually signed by a large number of influential ladies. [Circular.] Proposed Hospital for the Treatment of the Special Diseases of Women The Lectures recently delivered by Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell at the Marylebone Literary Institution have produced in the minds of the ladies who heard them a strong conviction of the necessity for a more general diffusion of hygienic knowlege among women ; and have led to a proposition to found a hospital for a class of diseases, the ordinary treatment of which too frequently involves much avoidable moral suffering, to be placed