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Resume Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1836-1917

__**OBJECTIVE:**__ I was an English medical practitioner. I wish to promote employment for women and allow women the right to vote.

and the first woman physician in Great Britain. When I decided I wanted to become a nurse, the schools I wanted to apply to wouldn't allow me because I was a lady. I then entered a school called Middlesex Hospital that had lectures performed by male doctors but I was then banned because of the complaints from the men. In 1866 I established a dispensary for women in London, It was later named the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital
 * __SUMMARY__**: I was the first woman to successfully complete the medical qualifying exams in Great Britain

In 1865 I gained my first medical qualification from the society of Apthecaries which enabled me to have my name entered into the British medical register in 1869. I opened my first female-staffed medical practice in 1865. I was the first woman in my country to have a seat on the East London School Board in 1870. I performed my first ovarian operation in 1872, which was successful. The London School of Medicine For Women opened in 1874 and I started as a member of the council and was on the teaching staff. Later I became the dean. In 1908 I became the first ever woman mayor in England.
 * __MAJOR__ __ACOMPLISHMENTS:__**

__**BASHING OF OPPONENTS:**__ Joseph Lancaster was privately beating boys who he worked with. Louis Pasteur gave false information on the anthrax vaccine. Edwin Chadwick has a very hard time getting along and agreeing with his superiors.