Florence Sabin

Florence Sabin

1. 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.

2. While at Hopkins, she proved that lymphatics start as buds from the veins and go outward

3. Developed a system of dyeing cells to help scientists distinguish certain living cells from each other

4. 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

5. Her campaigning helped pass bills—which came to be called the “Sabin Health Laws”— that included allowing counties to combine forces to receive funds

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