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    ELIZABETH BLACKWELL. 93

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    To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...

    visiting some of the other Hospitals . She also went through a private course of Anatoiny and Dissection with one of the best

    professors of the capital . On leaving Paris she visited _G-raefenlberg ; and then returned to

    London , where she studied Medicine at St . Bartholomew ' s and the Woman ' s Hospital in Red Lion Squareand made acquaintance with

    , the system , of Medical Gymnastics devised by Ling , and introduced into England by its able expositor , Mr . Georgii . During this period

    she obtained testimonials of study from Baron Dubois , Dr . Burrows , Dr . Hue , Mr . Paget , and other eminent Physicians and Surgeons

    under whom she had continued her Medical education in Paris and in London . An invitation to prosecute her studies in the Royal Hospital of

    Berlin , with the promise of the freest admission to every department of that Institution , was addressed to her , in terms expressive of the

    warmest approbation of her course , by the principal Physician of that Institution ; an invitation , however , of which she was unable

    to avail herself . Having already , by her previous efforts , brought the subject of

    Female Physicians for Women and Children prominently before the public of the United States , she regarded that country as being

    probably better prepared than her native land to support a ladydoctor . She also knew that her example had already led many of

    her own sex in the United States to enter upon the study of medicine ; and considered it as incumbent on her to afford all the aid in

    her power to those who were thus preparing to follow in her stej ) s . She therefore , on the conclusion of her studies in London , withstood

    the efforts of relatives and friends who urged her to establish herself in that city , and returned , in 1851 , to New York . In a letter , begun

    towards the end of her voyage out , she says , — " I commence my letter nowfor I have just learned the blessed news that

    we shall probably reach New Yo , rk to-morrow ; such welcome news , for I am once so intensel more y on weary dry land of the voyage M , y and chief cannot pleasure express on board my has impatience been to watch to be

    American the sunsets sh , ore which . I have becom never e more seen and anything more more gorgeous beautiful as we than _aj the _^ proach sky last the evening sunset transfigu , when a red magnificent the west . rainbow But the filled thoug the ht of eastern how far heavens how , while far a I regal am

    going from the noble Old World of my girlhood , and my , dear very kind friends , hours there , looking has been out pursuing upon the me dreary sadly ocean throug . h Lad the y ¦ voyage ' s , sweet as I have venerable stood face for ,

    and haunted dear me continuall with her y poet-eyes On , landing and , I , break and fasted so many at an others hotel , , hav and e hosp then itable drove household to Mrs . A . ' s , was where wai I ting had for a most me , cordial and with welcome her aid from I foun that d

    of my red present brick lodg houses ings , and . How the crowd my heart s of sallow sank within eager me men at and the monotonou frivolous-looking s lines morning women , and is one the of money those -grasp cool , ing delicious atmosp , crystal here of days New when York merel ! . . . y . to But live this is

    eve blissful rything ; and , and I am do quite my d disposed uty heartil to y set in America to work , . seek I have out no the doubt good side of the oC

    Elizabeth Blackwell. 93

    ELIZABETH BLACKWELL . 93

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/21/