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Women surgeons

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  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
  • British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.
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    A woman treating a man's head-wound. Oil painting after J. Nixon.

    Nixon, John, -1818. | Reference: 44985i
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    An operation for appendicitis at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1920.

    Dodd, Francis, 1874-1949. | Date: [1920] | Reference: 45014i
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    British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.

    Wilkinson, K. W., active approximately 1946. | Date: 1946 | Reference: 725795i
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    A gynaecological operation. Colour lithograph by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.

    Powell, Virginia. | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 40686i
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    York, England: nurses and patient in the operating theatre of the York County Hospital. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.

    | Date: [1915?] | Reference: 569460i
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