Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born: February 3, 1821
Died: May 31, 1910 (aged 89)
Bio: Elizabeth Blackwell was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register.
Known for:
- While Beauty Slept
- Essays in Medical Sociology (1899)
- Scientific method in biology (1898)
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