Round 12: 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 in this city for children with disabilities called Willowbrook. 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 was distributed by this city’s King’s College. (10[2])Overcrowding at this city’s Bellevue Hospital led officials to open a smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island. For 10 points, name this city where Elizabeth Blackwell operated on patients in Manhattan. ■END■

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