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.

A woman treating a man's head-wound. Oil painting after J. Nixon.

A gynaecological operation. Colour lithograph by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.

York, England: nurses and patient in the operating theatre of the York County Hospital. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.

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1 painting : oil on metal ; metal 20 x 17.5 cm

1 drawing : coloured chalks on paper ; sight 30.6 x 26.5 cm

An operation for appendicitis at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1920.

G. Grey Turner is on the right, having taken off his face mask. He "was professor of surgery at Newcastle from 1927 until 1934. He then became the first director of surgery at the new British Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith where he remained until 1946"--Oxford dictionary of national biography, Oxford 2004. The photograph shows his "last oper[ating] day" before his retirement. On the left is a female colleague still wearing her surgical mask. Both are wearing rubber gloves

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 7.4 x 7.6 cm

Observed at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road, London. The surgeons were women. On the table in the middleground are bloodstained swobs, to be emptied into the yellow plastic bag in the foreground. Beyond the operating table, a monitor for keyhole surgery, not in use

1 print : lithograph, printed in six colours ; image 29.5 x 41 cm

The surgeon, the anaesthetist and the nurses are women

1 photograph : photoprint ; image 8.8 x 13.9 cm

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Women surgeons

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A woman treating a man's head-wound. Oil painting after J. Nixon.

An operation for appendicitis at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1920.

British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.

A gynaecological operation. Colour lithograph by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.

York, England: nurses and patient in the operating theatre of the York County Hospital. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.

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Women surgeons

Images

Works

A woman treating a man's head-wound. Oil painting after J. Nixon.

An operation for appendicitis at the Military Hospital, Endell Street, London. Chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1920.

British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: G. Grey Turner operating, 1946. Photograph by K.W. Wilkinson, 1946.

A gynaecological operation. Colour lithograph by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.

York, England: nurses and patient in the operating theatre of the York County Hospital. Photographic postcard, ca. 1915.

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