# @worldscifest on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B7qtQLSjtUR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2460355-worldscifest-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b99284d5ad.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-01-23T15:32:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WorldScienceFestival (@WorldSciFest) — https://gondola.cc/WorldSciFest

## Caption

Elizabeth Blackwell wrote that she initially "hated everything connected with the body." She became a doctor after a close friend's death, and later founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children to give women a place to practice medicine. She become the first woman in the United States to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree #OTD in 1849.
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#womeninscience #doctor #medicine #women #womancrush #fbf #heath #med #body #quotes #surprising #inspiring #herstory #history #science #sciencehistory #first #inspire

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## Tags

otd, history, inspire, surprising, inspiring, first, quotes, medicine, fbf, doctor, body, womeninscience, med, heath, science, women, herstory, sciencehistory, womancrush

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