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Florence Sabin
- She was the first woman to hold a full
professorship at Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, the first woman elected to the
National Academy of Sciences, and the first
woman to head a department at the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
- While at Hopkins, she proved that lymphatics
start as buds from the veins and go outward
- Developed a system of dyeing
cells to help scientists distinguish
certain living cells from each other
- Sabin and her co-workers described the
different lesions that tuberculosis causes,
and demonstrated that you could reproduce
the same lesions in animals using various
chemical components isolated from the
organisms
- This furthered knowledge of how TB
interacts with elements of the immune
system and why the immune system is not
always able to beat it
- Her campaigning helped pass bills—which
came to be called the “Sabin Health Laws”—
that included allowing counties to combine
forces to receive funds