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was a great woman. She was the first woman to receive a Medical degree in America. She opened an Infirmary for women and children in New York. was born on February 3 1821 in Bristol, England. But was raised differently then most children at this time. See wom ....

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.... every book in her house and was the teacher's best pupil. She never got bored of learning or trying new things; and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.   For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The trip was very hard for them it was like a nightmare. More than 200 people were crowded aboard the ship, and most of them brought cattle, rat-inf ....