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'Lady Physicians', 1865. Who is this interesting invalid? It is young Reginald de Bracks, who has succeeded in catching a bad cold, in order that he might send for that rising practitioner, Dr Arabella Bolus!. In 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) was licensed to practice by the Society of Apothecaries. Having been refused admission to medical schools (on grounds of her sex) in 1860, she began to study privately and was granted her MD in Paris in 1870. Cartoon from Punch, London, December 1865.