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Elizabeth Blackwell Impact

  Elizabeth Blackwell’s impact is she supported women’s rights to become doctors, promoted hygiene and preventative medicine. She opened a hospital that provided medical and surgical services for poor women and children. The hospital was a place where women doctors and nursing students could train. This hospital still is in existence today at the New York University Downtown Hospital. A few years after the war ended Elizabeth Blackwell carried out a plan that she'd developed in conjunction with Florence Nightingale in England:with her sister, Emily Blackwell, she opened the Women's Medical College at the infirmary. She took the chair of hygiene herself.