Schuster , Norah H

Papers of Norah Schuster including letters from Walter Pagel, Sidney Campbell Dyke, and other pathologists, c.1950-1981; correspondence relating to the Medical Society of London; correspondence with Sidney Dyke concerning the admission of non-medical chemists to ordinary membership of the Association of Clinical Pathologists, 1973-1974; papers relating to the early women pathologists Eileen Wood, Anne Gibson, and Herta Schwabacher; photographs; articles; and obituaries of pathologists.

Norah H. Schuster (1892-1991) HonFCRPath, HonFRSM was a pathologist.

In 1911 she registered as a medical student at Manchester University. Whilst a student she began work at the Manchester Royal Infirmary Pathological Laboratory. When Schuster qualaified in 1918 she was appointed assistant pathologist, becoming the first female ever to be employed as a doctor by the Manchester Royal Infirmary since its foundation. Her first clinical appointment was as house-surgeon at The Queen's Hosptal for Children, Hackney Road, where she became interested in blood groups.

After working at St Geroge's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, and the Infants Hospital, St Vincents Square, she was appointed pathologist to the Royal Chest Hospital in 1927. During the Second World War she was recruited into the Emergency Medical Service working in Windsor and Ashford. In 1943 Schuster returned to the Royal Chest Hospital and remained there until its closure in 1954. She then worked at Pinewood Hospital, Wokingham, until her retirement in 1959.

Schuster became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1922. She was also a founder fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and in 1950 she was elected to the presidency of the Association of Clinical Pathologists.