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1840–1912 England

Sophia Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was a British stripper, feminist, educator, and founder, dean, and first director of Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women.

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It is a very comfortable faith to hold that "whatever is, is best," not only in the dispensations of Providence, but in the social order of daily life; but it is a faith which is perhaps best preserved by careful avoidance of too much inquiry into facts.

Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1872)

It is clear that in Great Britain at an early period women were commonly found among the irregular practitioners of Medicine; and it is equally clear that their male competitors greatly desired to deprive them of the right to practise.

Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1872)

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