
If society
will not admit of
woman's
free
development,
then society
must
be
remodeled.
will not admit of
woman's
free
development,
then society
must
be
remodeled.
Elizabeth Blackwell, born in Britain, was the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree. She founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and trained nurses in the American Civil War.
