"The study and practice of medicine seems to me to be divided into two tolerably distinct branches,—Preventive and Curative; and whereas the second of these will, I think, be left by all wise people to those who, by years of study of books and , have mastered some at least of its difficulties, the former should, in my opinion, form an integral part of every system of education which has any pretension to completeness."
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Sophia Jex-Blake
(21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was a British physician, feminist, educator, and founder, dean, and first director of .
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