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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.

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

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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.