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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.

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.

M0018037: Portrait of Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

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

M0018471: Portrait of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

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Women surgeons

Images from the collections

Images about Women surgeons

Works from the collections

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.

M0018471: Portrait of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

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.

Women surgeons

Images from the collections

Images about Women surgeons

Works from the collections

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.

M0018471: Portrait of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

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.

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