My Name Is Not Isabella by Jennifer Fosberry

Author:Jennifer Fosberry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

A SCIENTIST is a person who tries to understand and explain how things work. They may study animals, machines, or rocks.

ELIZABETH BLACKWELL (1821–1910):

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to go to school to become a doctor. She decided that she wanted to be a doctor after a sick friend said she was sad there were no women doctors to treat her. Elizabeth applied to more than twenty-five schools that said no to her. Finally, Geneva College in New York said they would accept her if all her male classmates would agree. They may have thought it was a joke, but they said yes. Elizabeth finished first in her class in January 1849. She moved to France to practice. One day when she was giving eye medicine to a baby, an accident happened. Elizabeth lost her sight in one eye. Now she could not be a surgeon. Elizabeth went back to the United States but she still could not get a job as a doctor. Elizabeth opened a clinic for poor women and children that could not go to other doctors. She also started a medical school for women to learn to be doctors.

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