Sophia Jex-Blake: the first woman medical graduate to practice in the UK

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22411648

Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2012 Mar;73(3):167-Unknown.

Sophia Jex-Blake: the first woman medical graduate to practise in the UK.

Ellis H.

Source

Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Biomedical Sciences, London SE1 1UL.

Abstract

This year marks the centenary of the death of Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, one of the handful of women who, in the face of enormous professional opposition and of legal difficulties, established the right of women both to train in and to practise medicine in this country.