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I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

Source: Letter, 15 Jun 1860, to her Emily Davies; found at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WandersonE.htm.
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, (Jun 9 1836-1917), English physician; She was the first English doctor, 1870s, and the first female mayor, 1908; worked to admit women to professional education, especially in medicine.

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