In 1859, Elizabeth became the first woman to have her name on the British medical register after undertaking a year-long lecture tour of Great Britain. These lectures served as further inspiration for women to take up medicine at the highest level - like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Britain's first female doctor.
After returning to the U.S., she and her sisters helped organize the Women's Central Association of Relief. The Association helped to select and train nurses to tend troops in the Civil War.
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After the war, Blackwell, building upon a plan discussed with her friend Florence Nightingale, worked with her sister Emily to open the Women's Medical College. The college served a crucial role in educating female health practitioners for its 31 years of existence - but she didn't end her career at the college.
Instead, she returned to England, where in 1875, she was named professor of gynecology at the London School of Medicine for Children, founded by . . . Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Blackwell remained there until she retired in 1907. She died in Sussex in 1910.
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