Medical Women

This book contains two essays written by Sophia Jex-Blake. She was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. Jex-Blake led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. A leading campaigner for medical education for women, she was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh, at a time when no other medical schools were training women.