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really clean, Stink. Elizabeth Blackwell took three cold showers a day!”
    “Elizabeth Blackwell didn’t leave a lake on the floor.”
    “Hardee-har-har.”
    “Hip bone’s connected to da leg bone,” Judy sang as she got dressed. Today was going to be the amazing-est human body day ever, from head to toe.
    At school, Judy had ants in her pants all through Spelling, bees in her
patella
-knees all through Math. At last it was Science. Mr. Todd said the magic words. “Time for our Human Body projects. Rocky, why don’t you go first?”
    Rocky wrapped himself in toilet paper like a mummy, and told how eating a mummy can help your tummy! No lie. Doctors in the old-old-olden days thought mummies could cure stuff like stomachaches. So they ground up mummies, bones and all, and used them for medicine.

    “Creepy!” said most of the class.
    “Fascinating,” said Judy.
    Jessica Finch wrote
medi-words
on the board. Words like
intelligirl
(really smart girl),
brainiac
(has super-Einstein, not-kidney-bean brain), and
brain case
(sick in the brain), which she added to the dictionary. Then she passed out a word search. Judy found all the
medi-words
at
brainiac
speed.
    Finally, Mr. Todd called on her. Dr. Judy Elizabeth Blackwell. She put on her doctor shirt, a stethoscope, and a left-eye patch. She taped plastic bags over her shoes. She colored between her eyebrows with a black marker and stuck fake bugs on her head with tape. “Today I am Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman Doctor,” said Judy. “I’ll start with a poem.” She took a deep breath, so she wouldn’t get a terrible case of nerves. Or a bad case of sweat.
    Elizabeth Blackwell
    Lived in an attic
Nothing was automatic
    First in her class
What more could you ask?
    Became first woman doctor
Even though boys mocked her
    Opened a clinic
Helped poor people in it
    Delivered Babies
Gave shots for rabies (maybe)
    Opened her own school
It was way cool
    Wrote a book
Wonder how long it took.
    Born, I don’t know when
Died, 1910
    Take after the example
Of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell.

    Everybody clapped. “Any questions before I begin the operation?” Judy asked.
    “Why are you wearing pajamas?” asked Hailey.
    “Scrubs,” said Judy. “It’s a doctor shirt. Doctors have to be really, really clean and take tons of baths a day.”
    “Why do you only have one eyebrow?” asked Frank.
    “It’s a uni-brow. Like Elizabeth Blackwell had. Plus it makes me look smart. Like an
intelligirl
who is not a
brain case.
”
    “Why do you have that pirate patch on your eye?” asked Brad.
    “Elizabeth Blackwell got an eye infection and they took out her eye, so she wore an eye patch.”
    “Ooh. Gross!”
    “Why do you have fake bugs on your head?” asked Jessica Finch.
    “They didn’t really know how to fix her eye, so they put bloodsucking leeches on her head. They thought it would help.”
    “EEE-yew!” said a bunch of kids in the class.
    “Did you write that poem?”
    “Well, it wasn’t a gnome!”
    “Why do you have plastic bags on your feet?”
    “In case of blood,” said Judy.
    “Class, let’s let Judy show us her project,” said Mr. Todd.
    “Time for a real live operation!” said Judy.
    “Do it on me!” said Frank.
    “Not me!” said Rocky.
    “If you need a guinea pig,” said Jessica Finch, “do it on Peanut.”
    “I already have a patient.”
    “Is it dead?” asked Bradley.
    “My patient is alive, not dead. My patient is better to practice on than a little brother. My patient has lots of guts. Ooey-gooey guts.”
    “Who is it?”
    “Tell us!”
    “Does it have a name?”
    “Yes.”
    “Oh no! Does it have green skin?” asked Rocky.
    “Yes!” said Judy.
    “It’s Toady!” Frank called out.
    “Her name is . . . Ima,” said Judy. She held up a zucchini with a Magic-Marker face. “Ima Green Zucchini!”

    The whole class clapped.
    Frank came up front to help. He held up Judy’s X-ray drawing of the insides of a zucchini. “First, make sure