Packet O: Tossup 9

In this city, David Hosack opened the Elgin Botanic Garden for medical students to cultivate plants with medicinal properties. Under Mother Angela Hughes, the Sisters of Charity opened a teaching facility called Saint Vincent’s in this city. Robert F. Kennedy used the term “snake pit” for a facility (10[1])in this city for children with disabilities called Willowbrook. (10[1])This city’s Infirmary for Women and Children was opened by a woman who received a medical degree from Geneva Medical College. The first American M.D. degree (10[1])was distributed by this city’s (-5[1])King’s College. (10[5]-5[1])Overcrowding at this city’s (10[1]-5[1])Bellevue Hospital (10[2])led officials to open (-5[1])a smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island. (10[3])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name this city where Elizabeth Blackwell operated on patients in Manhattan. ■END■ (10[3])

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