Elizabeth Blackwell opens a hospital, the New…
March 1857 CE
In 1853, Blackwell had established a small dispensary near Tompkins Square.
She had also taken Marie Zakrzewska, a Polish woman pursuing a medical education, under her wing, serving as her preceptor in her pre-medical studies.
In 1857, Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, along with Blackwell and her sister Emily, who has also obtained a medical degree, expand Blackwell's original dispensary into the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.
Women will serve on the board of trustees, on the executive committee and as attending physicians.
The institution will accept both in- and outpatients and serve as a nurse's training facility.
The patient load will double in the second year.
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