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A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Engraving after J. Northcote.

Experiences of a woman doctor in Serbia / by Dr. Caroline Matthews.

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.

The work of medical women in India / by Margaret I. Balfour ... and Ruth Young ... with a foreword by Dame Mary Scharlieb.

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

New York Infirmary and Women's Medical College, New York City. Coloured wood engraving, 1868.

M0017817: Portrait of Elsie Inglis (1864-1917)

A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Coloured mezzotint by J. Walker, ca. 1783, after J. Northcote.

A woman doctor is taking the pulse of a male patient seated in an armchair. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.

M0018515: "Les femmes Medecins", French satirical drawing

An attractive female doctor being approached by three burly men enquiring about nursing work. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1870.

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Médecines & médecins Normands d'autrefois / Suzanne Jacques-Marin.

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.

Doctor or sculptor? / Mary Catterall.

Women and health in America : historical readings / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt.

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Physicians, Women

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Images referencing Physicians, Women

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Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Médecines & médecins Normands d'autrefois / Suzanne Jacques-Marin.

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.

Doctor or sculptor? / Mary Catterall.

Women and health in America : historical readings / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt.

Physicians, Women

Images from the collections

Images referencing Physicians, Women

Works from the collections

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Médecines & médecins Normands d'autrefois / Suzanne Jacques-Marin.

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.

Doctor or sculptor? / Mary Catterall.

Women and health in America : historical readings / edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt.

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