BLACKWELL, Elizabeth.

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The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls. First edition of the British physician's earliest published work, a collection of popular lectures on the education of young women delivered in New York during the spring of 1852. Blackwell was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US and the first to practise as a doctor in Britain as a member of the General Medical Council. It is scarce in the original cloth.Blackwell was admitted to the Geneva Medical College in New York in 1847 "after a reluctant faculty submitted the decision to a vote of the student body, which answered in the affirmative partially as a practical joke" (ANB). Her graduation in January 1849 garnered international press coverage. She received additional training in Europe, first at La Maternité in Paris and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. She returned to America in the 1850s, founding the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children (later the New York Infirmary for Women) along with her sister Emily and Marie Zakrzewska. In 1854, Blackwell adopted Kitty Barry, an Irish orphan who became her lifelong companion and secretary. They moved to England in 1869, where Blackwell established a private practice in London and co-founded the London School of Medicine for Women with Sophia Jex-Blake.Blackwell's medical career was driven by her passion for social and moral reform and rooted in her indignation over gender and social inequalities. Her entire family was

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