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Heal thyself in ‘The Doctors Blackwell’ Confronting the complicated legacy of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US By Jennifer Latson Globe correspondent,Updated January 20, 2021, 7:28 p.m. Email to a Friend Sol Cotti for The Boston Globe America’s first female doctor wasn’t all that interested in healing the sick. She was also surprisingly ambivalent about women’s rights — and about women in general. “Women are feeble, narrow, frivolous … and undeveloped in thought and feeling,” she once wrote to a suffragist, voicing her objection to the activist’s claim that the tyranny of men was to blame for the subjugation of women. “The exclusion and constraint woman suffers, is not the result of purposed injury or premeditated insult. It has arisen naturally, without violence, simply because woman has desired nothing more.”

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