Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes
.. every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
This is a remarkable insight into public health. By the late 20th century, most preventable death in America is a function of individual habits and choices: diet, dangerous driving, smoking, drinking and the like. Few physicians of Blackwell’s day realized this was coming.
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821-1910, Physician, First Woman to Earn a Medical Degree in America, Medicine as a Profession for Women, 1860
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Marquis de Valdegamas. He was a descendant of the conquistador, Hernando Cortez.
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Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social awareness and moral reformer, and pioneered in promoting education for women in medicine. Her contributions remain celebrated with the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, awarded annually to a woman who has made significant contribution to the promotion of women in medicine.
