See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

ELIZABETH See also:

• GARRETT, JOAO BAPTISTA DA SILVA LEITAO DE ALMEIDA, VISCONDE DE

GARRETT See also:

• ANDERSON
• ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
• ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
• ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON (1836— )
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
• ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
• ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
• ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
• ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
• ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)

ANDERSON (1836— )  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English medical practitioner, daughter of Newson See also:

• GARRETT, JOAO BAPTISTA DA SILVA LEITAO DE ALMEIDA, VISCONDE DE

Garrett, of See also:

• ALDEBURGH [ALDjIOROUGH]

Aldeburgh, See also:

• SUFFOLK
• SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1484–'545)
• SUFFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF (1561-1626)
• SUFFOLK, WILLIAM DE LA POLE

Suffolk, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1836, and educated at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home and at a private school . In 186o she resolved to study See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, an unheard-of thing for a woman in those days, and one which was regarded by old-fashioned See also:

• PEOPLE

people as almost indecent . See also:

• MISS

Miss Garrett managed to obtain some more or less irregular instruction at the See also:

• MIDDLESEX
• MIDDLESEX, LIONEL CRANFIELD, 1ST EARL OF (1575-1645)

Middlesex See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, See also:

• LONDON

London, but was refused See also:

• ADMISSION

admission as a full student both there and at many other See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools to which she applied . Finally she studied See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy privately at the London hospital, and with some of the professors at St See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

Andrews University, and at the See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh Extra-Mural school . She had no less difficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise medicine . London University, the Royal Colleges of Physicians959 and Surgeons, and many other examining bodies refused to admit her to their See also:

• EXAMINATIONS

examinations; but in the end the Society of Apothecaries, London, allowed her to enter for the License of Apothecaries' See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, which she obtained in 1865 . In 1866 she was appointed See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general medical attendant to St See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary's dispensary, a London institution started to enable poor See also:

• WOMEN

women to obtain medical help from qualified practitioners of their own See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex . The dispensary soon See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into the New hospital for women, and there she worked for over twenty years . In 187o she obtained the See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris degree of M.D . The same See also:

• YEAR

year she was elected to the first London School See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board, at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• POLL

poll for Marylebone, and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East London hospital for See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children; but the duties of these two positions she found to be incompatible with her See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORK

work, and she soon resigned them . In 1871 she married Mr J . G .

S . See also:

• ANDERSON
• ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
• ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
• ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
• ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
• ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
• ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
• ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
• ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
• ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)

Anderson (d . 1907), a London shipowner, but did not give up practice . She worked steadily at the development of the New hospital, and (from 1874) at the creation of a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete school of medicine in London for women . Both institutions have since been handsomely and suitably housed and equipped, the New hospital (in the Euston Road) being worked entirely by medical women, and the schools (in See also:

• HUNTER, JOHN (1728-1793)
• HUNTER, ROBERT MERCER TALIAFERRO (r8o9-1887)
• HUNTER, SIR WILLIAM WILSON (1840-19oo)
• HUNTER, WILLIAM (1718–1783)
• HUNTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1844-1898)

Hunter See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street, W.C.) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree of London University, which was opened to women in 1877 . In 1897 Mrs Garrett Anderson was elected See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the East Anglian See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

• BRITISH

British Medical Association . In 1908 she was elected (the first See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady) See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of Aldeburgh . The See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement for the admission of women to the medical profession, of which she was the indefatigable See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, has extended to every civilized See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country except See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain and See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey .