Female surgeons observing an operation

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Caption: Female surgeons. Operation observed by female medical students, before 1914. There were few women surgeons before WW1, but during the wars women moved into many of the fields traditionally performed by men.

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Keywords: 20th century, black-and-white, doctors, female, healthcare, historical, history, learning, medical, medicine, monochrome, observation, students, surgeons, surgery, surgical care, women, world war i, wwi

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