Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Essays

  • Biography Of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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    A very important scientist in the world was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. She promoted women’s rights and supported women in every way. She was the first women in her country to be on the East London School Board. She was very inspired by a women named Elizabeth Blackwell, who was the first woman in America to graduate from medical school. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English Physician. She was the first woman to do many things in the medical field. She was very inspirational to women all around

  • The History of Medicine

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    Medicine has always been a big part in helping people get better, it has been around for a long time. You could go back hundreds of years and find some sort of medicine that as been around. It all started with Hippocrates, he was a doctor in 400 BC in Ancient Greece. He has come up with the idea of the four humors. The four humors were: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. He believed if these were imbalanced then you would become ill. The second person that came into the medicine world

  • Trapped Women In The 19th Century And Their Escape Analysis

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    Trapped Women in the Nineteenth Century and Their Escape “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.” (Chopin 550). This quote from the short story expresses how Mrs. Mallard feels once she discovers the news about the death of her husband. She explains that she may cry at the funeral, but she knew he did not express true love in the marriage by controlling her. Once the discovery

  • Medicine in the Medieval Period

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    Medicine in the Medieval Period In the 14th Century, trade around Europe was increasing ships regularly and travelled from the Mediterranean to other parts of Europe. In 1348 one ship brought a devastating plague to England. Source 1-Written by a monk from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, in the 1350's: "In 1348, at about the feast of the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr (7 July) the cruel pestilence, hateful to all future ages, arrived from the countries across the sea on the South coast