Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
“Fort Sumpter”is probably a typo or printer’s error
The following may be typos or printer's errors:
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY DR. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL AUTHOR OF ‘THE MORAL EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG’ ETC.
LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895
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It has often been urged that a record should be preserved of some of the first efforts by means of which the medical profession of our day has been opened to women.
In the belief that a large providential guidance may often be recognised in the comparatively trivial incidents of an individual life, this request of many friends is here complied with.
The possession of old journals and of family correspondence gives accuracy to these details of past years.
Hastings, 1895.