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Previous Volume 356:2118-2119 May 17, 2007 Number 20

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By Julia Boyd. 336 pp., illustrated. Thrupp, England, Sutton Publishing, 2006. $22.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-750-94140-2 (cloth); 978-0-750-94141-9 (paper).

With the approach of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the publication of Julia Boyd's definitive biography of Elizabeth Blackwell could not have been more timely. It is a continual source of amazement to me that most medical students and physicians have no idea whom Elizabeth Blackwell was — for those of you who are no wiser, she was the first female physician in the United States.

Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, and came to the United States with her family in 1832, when she was 11 years old. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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