Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
1840-1912
English physician who was responsible for 1876 legislation permitting women in Britain to accept medical degrees and to receive licenses to practice medicine. Jex-Bla...
Read more
Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912) led a long and difficult struggle to open the medical profession to women in Great Britain. After many years of trying to gain admittance to a Scottish medical school, she...
Read more