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    ELIZABETH BLACKWELL. 97

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

    sent over by friends in England—sufficed for the furnishing of the rooms now in use ; the rent and current expenses for the first three

    years being secured hy private subscriptions . The Executive Committee of the hospital consists of the following members . President ,

    Stacy B . Collins , Esq . ; Treasurer , Robert Haydock _, Esq . ; Attending PhysiciansDr . Elizabeth and Dr . Emily Blackwell ; Resident

    Physician , Dr . , Maria E . Zakrzewska ; Committee , for donations , Mrs . PendletonMiss HowlandMrs . C . M . Kirkland , Mrs . R . S .

    Beatty ; Cyrus , II . Field , Henry , J . Raymond , Charles Butler , Horace GreelMarcus SpringEsqrs . of New York ; Mrs . F . Shaw ,

    Staten Island y ; , Miss Catherine , Sedge wick , , Lennox , Massachusetts ; Dr . ElderDr . Ann PrestonPhiladelphia ; Mrs . J . F . Clark , Dr .

    Harriet R . , Hunt , Boston ; Horace , Mann , Esq ., Yellow Springs , Ohio . The services of Dr . Elizabeth and Dr . Emily Blackwell , and of

    T > r . Maria Zakrzewska , are given gratuitously to the hospital , in which they take the most active interest .

    Meantime , Dr . Elizabeth ' s younger sister , Emily , who had determined to follow her examplehad begun , in 1846 , to accumulate , as

    a teacher , the funds required , for the prosecution of her medical studies . Possessed of magnificent health and indomitable energy ,

    at home in the Latin , French , and German languages , with a fair knowledge of Greek and mathematics , a memory so prompt that a

    single reading usually sufficed for the committal of the longest recitation by her in was prose ever or forgotten verse , and and so cap retentiv able e like that her nothing sister , once of enduring learned

    , , any amount of self-denial , and of encountering any amount of oppositionin the attainment of an end , she was well calculated to follow

    in the , path in which Dr . Elizabeth had been the pioneer . In 1848 she entered upon a course of medical reading and dissection with

    Dr . DavisDemonstrator of Anatomy in the Cincinnati College ; and continued , these _preiDaratory studies , while still engaged as a teacher but ,

    until 1851 . She then applied for admission to Geneva College , was refused ; the faculty stating that they were not prepared to consider their previous admission of Dr . Elizabeth as a precedent

    for the admission of other women as students . She then applied to ten other medical colleges , and was refused by them . all . She

    succeeded , however , in gaining admission to the great Free Hospital having different of Bellevue been medical , in granted New colleges York b . the , while In Medical the continuing autumn College of her of 1852 app Chicago , lications her app ( Illinois lication to the ) ,

    she entered that institution y and pursued the regular course of study through the winter term . , During the succeeding vacation she reat Bellevue

    turned to New Yorkwhere she resumed her attendance , and began the study , of chemistry with Dr . Doremus , Professor of

    to Ch On emist her returning great ry in the surprise to New Chicago York and at disappointment College the close . of , the that vacation the doors , she of found the

    Elizabeth Blackwell. 97

    ELIZABETH BLACKWELL . 97

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/25/