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  • A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.

    Date
    10 April 1787
    Reference
    21590i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • New York Infirmary and Women's Medical College, New York City. Coloured wood engraving, 1868.

    Date
    1868
    Reference
    25294i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Champion of choice : the life and legacy of women's advocate Nafis Sadik / Cathleen Miller.

    • Miller, Cathleen.
    Date
    [2013]
    • Books
  • Women will be doctors / by Hannah Lees.

    • Lees, Hannah, 1904-1973.
    Date
    1942
    • Books
  • Medical women; two essays.

    • Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912.
    Date
    1872
    • Books
    • Online
  • A woman doctor bandaging a young woman's hand. Mezzotint, 1787.

    Date
    20 June 1787
    Reference
    21591i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Valedictory address to the twenty-second graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania : March 13, 1874 / by Rachel L. Bodley, A.M.

    • Bodley, Rachel L.
    Date
    1874
    • Books
    • Online
  • Ice bound : a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole / Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers.

    • Nielsen, Jerri.
    Date
    [2001], ©2001
    • Books
  • A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Engraving after J. Northcote.

    • Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
    Reference
    21592i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Twenty-third annual announcement of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, North College Avenue and 22d Street, Philadelphia : Session of 1872-3.

    • Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
    Date
    1872
    • Books
    • Online
  • The heart specialist / Claire Holden Rothman.

    • Rothman, Claire, 1958-
    Date
    [2011], ©2011
    • Books
  • A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Coloured mezzotint by J. Walker, ca. 1783, after J. Northcote.

    • Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
    Date
    1783
    Reference
    22185i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Doctors and their careers : a new generation / Isobel Allen.

    • Allen, Isobel.
    Date
    [1994], ©1994
    • Books
  • A woman doctor, perhaps a midwife, diagnosing pregnancy in a young woman: her dismayed parents are in the background. Mezzotint, 1778.

    Date
    As the Act directs 10 August 1778
    Reference
    21773i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Medical women; a thesis and a history.

    • Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1849-1912.
    Date
    1886
    • Books
    • Online
  • A woman doctor is taking the pulse of a male patient seated in an armchair. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.

    • Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
    Date
    23 December 1865
    Reference
    571250i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Attracta Genevieve Rewcastle, first woman doctor to the Royal Navy; with Sister A.M. King (right). Photograph, 1940.

    • Central Press Photos Ltd.
    Date
    17 July 1940
    Reference
    47690i
    • Pictures
  • Woman as a physician / by J. P. Chesney, M.D.

    • Chesney, J. Portman (Jesse Portman)
    Date
    [cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Medical women of America : a short history of the pioneer medical women of America and a few of their colleagues in England / by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead.

    • Hurd-Mead, Kate Campbell, 1867-1941.
    Date
    1933
    • Books
    • Online
  • Oregon's doctor to the world : Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a life in activism / Kimberly Jensen.

    • Jensen, Kimberly, 1958-
    Date
    [2012], ©2012
    • Books
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.

    • Marais, Maurice, 1852-
    Date
    23 January 1897
    Reference
    16999i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A vicar asking a woman if she likes her new female doctor, the woman retorts that she prefers male doctors and finds them more genteel. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

    • Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
    Reference
    15663i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Etching after J. Northcote.

    • Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
    Reference
    21593i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Florence Fenwick Miller : Victorian feminist, journalist, and educator / Rosemary T. Van Arsdel.

    • VanArsdel, Rosemary T.
    Date
    [2001], ©2001
    • Books
  • A group of women on a steam boat arriving from an infected port being inspected by female doctors, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.

    • Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.
    Date
    [1897?]
    Reference
    37853i
    Part of
    Moss, C., Captain, fl. ca. 1897.
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