Six months after the convention, the first woman doctor of medicine in modern times graduated, first in her class, from Geneva Medical College in New York. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell(1821-1910), along with her sister Emily, who became a doctor, too, opened a clinic for women and children in New York City in 1857.
There was and may still be a clinic in Phildelphia with her name. At the time when she became a Dr. woman were not allowed to study medicine. It seems silly now but it was very serious back then. Also, the idea of Doctoring or treating patients under sanitary conditions was a new idea and not many Drs. did this. Elizabeth did and taught her Drs. in the medical college that she established to do it also.
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