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DR. JEX-BLAKE. t> Telegrni)li.-4'rcii Aisoeiatton.— Copyright. LONDON, 9th January, Miss Sophia Jcx-Blake,, Dean- of the ' School of Medicine for Women in Ediu- • burgh, is dead. tMiss Sophia Jex-Blake, M.D., was born in January, 1840, in Sussex. She, was late attending medical officer of Edinburgh Dispensary and Cottage Hospital for Women and Children. In the year 1866 she began to study medicine in Boston, U.S.A., under" Dr. Lucy Sewall. She returned to England hi 186(3, and in 1869 matriculated in the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh. Not being allowed to complete her stif dies and take degrees, sliti brought an action, with others, against the ¦university of Edinburgh in 1872, which was practically gained at the first hearing, but on appeal being made, the decision Wan reversed by a bare majority of the whole Court of Session in 1873. lii the year 1874 she founded the London School of Medicine for Womeiij and retired from practice iv 1899.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1912, Page 7
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