Anderson Elizabeth

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, M.D., the champion of the right of women to practise medicine, born in 1837. Under some difficulties she completed her medical studies at the Universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, and at the Middlesex and London Hospitals. The Licentiate of the Apothecaries Society of London was granted her in 1860, and in 1870 she received the degree of M.D, at Paris. As medical attendant to St. Mary's Dispensary and Physician to the East London Hospital for Children, she did excellent work. In 1871 she married a gentleman named Anderson, and has sinoe then carried on a considerable private practice in London, writing, too, a number of papers on professional subjects.