BLACK WELL, ALEXANDER

(1747), Scot. who became royal physician in Sweden; executed for treason. women. status. Author, The Island Neighbors, 1871; The Physical Basis of Immortality, 1876; The Philosophy of Individuality, Universe, 1914; Mind and Action, 1915. 4910), an America n ph sician and the first woman to obtain a degree of Doctor of Medicine in the United States, This in 1849 and in 1851 she began to was In 1854 practice in New York City. she, with her sister Emily Black well, opened the Infirmary for Women and Children. From this grew the Woman's Medical College which was opened in 1867. She went to England in 1868 and organized a woman's medical college there, becoming one of its profe ors. of Laws of Life, 1852, and Author Pioneer Work in Opening the | Medical Profe ion to Women.