【美国人物志】伊丽莎白·布莱克威尔 (5/9)

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伊丽莎白 布莱克威尔 她是西方第一位成为医生的女性,19世纪医生都是男性。30岁在美国开第一家女子诊所,47岁成立自己的女子医学院。
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Geneva Medical School
Doctor Blackwell
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
Florence Nightingale
New York CityElizabeth Blackwell faced many problems in medical school. Some professors refused to teach her. Some students threatened her. But finally they accepted her. Elizabeth graduated with high honors from Geneva Medical School in 1849. She was the only woman in the western world to have completed medical school training. Three months later, Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell went to Paris to learn to be a surgeon. She wanted to work in a hospital there to learn how to operate on patients. But no hospital wanted her. No one would recognize that she was a doctor. A hospital for women and babies agreed to let her study there. But she had to do the tasks of a nursing student. At the hospital, Doctor Blackwell accidentally got a chemical liquid in her eye. It became infected. She became blind in that eye. So she was forced to give up her dreams of becoming a surgeon. Instead, she went to London to study at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital. There, she met the famous nurse Florence Nightingale. Elizabeth returned to the United States in 1851. She opened a medical office in New York City. But no patients came. So doctor Blackwell opened an office in a poor part of the city to help people who lived under difficult conditions. And she decided to raise a young girl who had lost her parents.伊丽莎白 布莱克威尔 在医学院遇到很多困难。一些教授不愿意教她。1849年伊丽莎白以高分毕业于日内瓦医学院。她是西方世界里，完成医学系统培训的唯一女性。三个月后，伊丽莎白布莱克威尔去巴黎，学习如何做一个外科医生。她想要去医院工作，并且在那儿学习如何做一个外科医生。但是没有医院接收她。没有人认可她是医生。一个专为女子和婴儿服务的医院同意让她在那里学习。但是她必须兼职护理学生的任务。在医院，布莱克威尔，化学液体意外地溅入她的眼睛里并有了影响。她那只眼睛失明了。所以她被迫放弃当外科医生的梦想。接着，她去了伦敦的Saint Bartholomew医院。在那儿她遇到了著名的护士 Florence Nightingale。伊丽莎白于1851年回到了美国。她在纽约开设了一间医学诊所。但是没有病人来看病。所以布莱克威尔在贫民窟开了一家诊所，帮助那些居住环境差的人们。她同时也决定收养一个失去双亲的孤女。       
——译文来自: 只开一季的樱花