Women Doctors

Elizabeth Blackwell trained as a doctor in Geneva Medical College, New York. In 1859 she met Elizabeth Garret Anderson who was inspired to become a doctor. She enrolled as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital but was soon banned from medical lectures. She discovered that there was no regulation banning women enrolling at the Society of Apothecaries. She passed her exams and thus became Britain's first female doctor. But this loophole was soon closed, and so in 1874 a group of women set up the London School of Medicine for Women

This was set up in Handel Street near Russel Sq, it soon gained a connection to the Royal Free Hospital which by this means became a teaching hospital and which allowed women to practice medicine.