User:RyanSchrick87/Emily Blackwell

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I plan to add more information to this sandbox. I will do more research and read more on Emily Blackwell especially post retirement and death. I realize there is a lot of blank space in those areas. I also plan to just make formal citations instead of just the links soon as well. And I also plan to look more into how her career work really affected the USA and women in medicine as a whole.

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Emily became professor of obstetrics and in 1869, when Elizabeth moved to London to help form the London School of Medicine for Women, became dean of the college. (Make Flow Better)

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In 1871 The New York County Medical Society accepted Emily as a member. https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/emily_blackwellhttps://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/emily_blackwell

Emily was also the third woman in United States' history to earn a medical degree. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

From 1858 to 1860 Emily was left in charge of the infirmary as her sister and Dr. Zakrzewska left for their own reasons. In that time Emily was successful in getting state funding and the patient numbers skyrocketed leading them to have to move their operations to larger quarters in 1860. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

After her sister returned they kept expanding to new horizons. The sisters launched the first in-home medical social work program in the history of the United States. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

Emily raised $50,000 to start a medical school in 1859. And in 1860 the infirmary began to train women as assistant physicians. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

Even after Emily's retirement in 1900 the infirmary still stands and does excellent work under a new name, the NYU downtown hospital. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

Emily was able to see her sister Elizabeth one final time in 1906 before the eldest Blackwell fell down a flight of stairs and never fully recovered and ended up passing in 1910. https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

Emily died a few months after her sister in her home in York Cliffs, Maine due to enterocolitis on September 7, 1910 https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html

Emily’s high standards, hard work, and determination helped pave a way for the future of women in medicine. Without the effort and work of Emily Blackwell who knows where the world of women in medicine would be https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/02/emily-blackwell.html  Additions: 

Emily Blackwell is largely responsible for the long term survival of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_36.html Added to article

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In 1857, Blackwell, along with her sister Elizabeth and Marie Zakrzewska, established the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. From the beginning, Emily Blackwell took responsibility for the management of the infirmary and for the raising of funds. For the next forty years, she managed the infirmary, overseeing surgery, nursing, and bookkeeping. Blackwell traveled to Albany to convince the legislature to provide the hospital with funds that would ensure long-term financial stability. She transformed an institution housed in a rented 16-room house into a full-fledged hospital. By 1874, the infirmary served over 7,000 patients annually. Emily Blackwell is largely responsible for the long term survival of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.

During the American Civil War, Blackwell helped organize the Women's Central Association of Relief, which selected and trained nurses for service in the war. Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell and Mary Livermore also played an important role in the development of the United States Sanitary Commission.

After the war, in 1868 the Blackwell sisters established the Women's Medical College in New York City. Emily became professor of obstetrics and in 1869, when Elizabeth moved to London to help form the London School of Medicine for Women, became dean of the college. In 1876 it became a three-year institution, and in 1893 it became a four-year college, ahead of much of the profession. By 1899 the college had trained 364 women doctors.

From 1883, Blackwell lived with her partner Elizabeth Cushier, who also served as a doctor at the infirmary. Blackwell and Cushier retired at the turn of the century. After traveling abroad for a year and a half, they spent the next winters at their home in Montclair, New Jersey, and summers in Maine. Blackwell died on September 7, 1910, in York Cliffs, Maine, a few months after her sister Elizabeth's death in England. 