210:. She was privately educated in medicine as an apprentice to Dr. Nathaniel Moseley from 1847 to 1849. Unable to attend other medical schools because of their policies against admitting women, Preston entered the Quaker-founded Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (later changed to Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1867) at the age of 38 as a student in its inaugural class of 1850. While studying at the Female Medical College In 1851, Preston wrote to her friend and fellow Quaker activist Hannah Darlington:
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from graduating with a medical degree, feeling that she did not meet the required qualifications. Other faculty, including Dr. Preston, supported Jacobi and disagreed with
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the hospital she founded before becoming dean, she opened a school of nursing, and continued to push for educational opportunities for the female students of Woman's
Medical College, including more and better clinical experience. In 1867, the
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