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Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dr Anandibai Joshi was the first Indian female doctor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabeth Blackwell, MD (1821-1910): A fabulous first In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to be granted an MD degree. Blackwell began her pioneering journey after a deathly ill friend insisted she would have received better care from a female doctor.