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By Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: October 10, 2004
(THEME)
ANNCR:
Every week we tell about someone important in the history of the United
States. Today, Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell about the first western
woman in modern times to become a doctor. Now, the story of Elizabeth
Blackwell on the VOA Special English program People in America.
(THEME)
VOICE ONE:
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in eighteen twenty-one. Her
parents, Hannah and Samuel Blackwell, believed strongly that all human beings
are equal. Elizabeth's father owned a successful sugar company. He worked
hard at his job. He also worked to support reforms in England. He opposed the
slave trade. He tried to help improve low pay and poor living conditions of
workers. And he wanted women to have the same chance for education as men.
He carried this out in his own home. Elizabeth had three brothers and four
sisters. All followed the same plan of education. They all studied history,
mathematics, Latin1 and Greek. These subjects were normally2 taught only to
boys. Friends asked Samuel Blackwell what he expected the girls to do with
all that education. He answered, "They shall do what they please".
VOICE TWO:
In eighteen thirty-two, Samuel Blackwell's sugar factory was destroyed by
fire. He and his wife decided3 to move the family to the United States.
Elizabeth was eleven years old.
The Blackwells settled in New York City. But Mister4 Blackwell's business
there failed. The family moved west, to the city of Cincinnati, on the Ohio
river.
Samuel Blackwell was sick for much of the trip. He died soon after arriving
in Ohio. To help support the family, Elizabeth and her two older sisters
started a school for girls in their home. Two younger brothers found jobs.
In the next few years, Elizabeth's brothers became successful in business.
The girls continued operating their school. But Elizabeth was not happy. She
did not like teaching5.
Elizabeth began to visit a family friend who was suffering from cancer. The
woman knew she was dying6. She said women should be permitted to become
doctors because they are good at helping7 sick people. The dying friend said
that perhaps her sickness would have been better understood if she had been
treated by a woman. And she suggested that Elizabeth study medicine.
VOICE ONE:
Elizabeth knew that no woman had ever been permitted to study in a medical
school. But she began to think about the idea seriously after the woman who
had suggested it died.
Elizabeth discussed it with the family doctor. He was opposed. But her family
supported the idea. So Elizabeth took a teaching job in the southern state of
North Carolina to earn money for medical school.
Another teacher there agreed to help her study the sciences she would need.
The next year, she studied medicine privately8 with a doctor. He was also a
medical school professor. He told Elizabeth that the best medical schools
were in Philadelphia.
VOICE TWO:
No medical school in Philadelphia would accept her. College officials told
her she must go to Paris and pretend to be a man if she wanted to become a
doctor. Elizabeth refused. She wrote to other medical colleges -- Harvard,
Yale, and other, less well-known ones. All rejected her, except Geneva
Medical College in the state of New York.
She went there immediately, but did not feel welcome. It was not until much
later that she learned9 the reason: her acceptance10 was a joke. The teachers at
the college decided not to admit a woman. But they did not want to insult11 the
doctor who had written to support Elizabeth's desire to study medicine. So
they let the medical students decide.
The male students thought it funny that a woman wanted to attend medical
school. So, as a joke, they voted to accept her. They regretted their
decision by the time Elizabeth arrived, but there was nothing they could do.
She was there. She paid her money. She wanted to study.
VOICE ONE:
Elizabeth Blackwell faced many problems in medical school. Some professors
refused to teach her. Some students threatened her. But finally they accepted
her. Elizabeth graduated with high honors12 from Geneva Medical School in
eighteen forty-nine. She was the only woman in the western world to have
completed medical school training.
Three months later, Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell went to Paris to learn to be a
surgeon. She wanted to work in a hospital there to learn how to operate on
patients. But no hospital wanted her. No one would recognize that she was a
doctor.
A hospital for women and babies agreed to let her study there. But she had to
do the tasks of a nursing student. At the hospital, Doctor Blackwell
accidentally13 got a chemical liquid in her eye. It became infected. She became
blind in that eye. So she was forced to give up her dreams of becoming a
surgeon.
Instead, she went to London to study at Saint14 Bartholomew's Hospital. There,
she met the famous nurse Florence Nightingale.
Elizabeth returned to the United States in eighteen fifty-one. She opened a
medical office in New York City. But no patients came. So doctor Blackwell
opened an office in a poor part of the city to help people who lived under
difficult conditions. And she decided to raise a young girl who had lost her
parents.
Broadcast: October 10, 2004
(THEME)
ANNCR:
Every week we tell about someone important in the history of the United
States. Today, Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell about the first western
woman in modern times to become a doctor. Now, the story of Elizabeth
Blackwell on the VOA Special English program People in America.
(THEME)
VOICE ONE:
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Bristol, England in eighteen twenty-one. Her
parents, Hannah and Samuel Blackwell, believed strongly that all human beings
are equal. Elizabeth's father owned a successful sugar company. He worked
hard at his job. He also worked to support reforms in England. He opposed the
slave trade. He tried to help improve low pay and poor living conditions of
workers. And he wanted women to have the same chance for education as men.
He carried this out in his own home. Elizabeth had three brothers and four
sisters. All followed the same plan of education. They all studied history,
mathematics, Latin1 and Greek. These subjects were normally2 taught only to
boys. Friends asked Samuel Blackwell what he expected the girls to do with
all that education. He answered, "They shall do what they please".
VOICE TWO:
In eighteen thirty-two, Samuel Blackwell's sugar factory was destroyed by
fire. He and his wife decided3 to move the family to the United States.
Elizabeth was eleven years old.
The Blackwells settled in New York City. But Mister4 Blackwell's business
there failed. The family moved west, to the city of Cincinnati, on the Ohio
river.
Samuel Blackwell was sick for much of the trip. He died soon after arriving
in Ohio. To help support the family, Elizabeth and her two older sisters
started a school for girls in their home. Two younger brothers found jobs.
In the next few years, Elizabeth's brothers became successful in business.
The girls continued operating their school. But Elizabeth was not happy. She
did not like teaching5.
Elizabeth began to visit a family friend who was suffering from cancer. The
woman knew she was dying6. She said women should be permitted to become
doctors because they are good at helping7 sick people. The dying friend said
that perhaps her sickness would have been better understood if she had been
treated by a woman. And she suggested that Elizabeth study medicine.
VOICE ONE:
Elizabeth knew that no woman had ever been permitted to study in a medical
school. But she began to think about the idea seriously after the woman who
had suggested it died.
Elizabeth discussed it with the family doctor. He was opposed. But her family
supported the idea. So Elizabeth took a teaching job in the southern state of
North Carolina to earn money for medical school.
Another teacher there agreed to help her study the sciences she would need.
The next year, she studied medicine privately8 with a doctor. He was also a
medical school professor. He told Elizabeth that the best medical schools
were in Philadelphia.
VOICE TWO:
No medical school in Philadelphia would accept her. College officials told
her she must go to Paris and pretend to be a man if she wanted to become a
doctor. Elizabeth refused. She wrote to other medical colleges -- Harvard,
Yale, and other, less well-known ones. All rejected her, except Geneva
Medical College in the state of New York.
She went there immediately, but did not feel welcome. It was not until much
later that she learned9 the reason: her acceptance10 was a joke. The teachers at
the college decided not to admit a woman. But they did not want to insult11 the
doctor who had written to support Elizabeth's desire to study medicine. So
they let the medical students decide.
The male students thought it funny that a woman wanted to attend medical
school. So, as a joke, they voted to accept her. They regretted their
decision by the time Elizabeth arrived, but there was nothing they could do.
She was there. She paid her money. She wanted to study.
VOICE ONE:
Elizabeth Blackwell faced many problems in medical school. Some professors
refused to teach her. Some students threatened her. But finally they accepted
her. Elizabeth graduated with high honors12 from Geneva Medical School in
eighteen forty-nine. She was the only woman in the western world to have
completed medical school training.
Three months later, Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell went to Paris to learn to be a
surgeon. She wanted to work in a hospital there to learn how to operate on
patients. But no hospital wanted her. No one would recognize that she was a
doctor.
A hospital for women and babies agreed to let her study there. But she had to
do the tasks of a nursing student. At the hospital, Doctor Blackwell
accidentally13 got a chemical liquid in her eye. It became infected. She became
blind in that eye. So she was forced to give up her dreams of becoming a
surgeon.
Instead, she went to London to study at Saint14 Bartholomew's Hospital. There,
she met the famous nurse Florence Nightingale.
Elizabeth returned to the United States in eighteen fifty-one. She opened a
medical office in New York City. But no patients came. So doctor Blackwell
opened an office in a poor part of the city to help people who lived under
difficult conditions. And she decided to raise a young girl who had lost her
parents.
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1 Latin | |
adj.拉丁的,拉丁语的,拉丁人的;n.拉丁语 | |
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