Index

Claire Brock

Index

abdominal surgery, 5, 31–32, 38, 42–44, 48–52 and passim

in Great War, 193

patient reactions to, 64–66

Abel Smith, Brian, 275

Aldrich-Blake, Louisa

‘Aldrich-Blake Method’ for excision of rectum, 145–147

and Croix de Guerre, 231

and first MS, 18n53

and Great War service, 182, 258–260

and rectal surgery, 145–151, 179

and surgical patients (male and female) at RFH, 259–270, 271, 274–275

and surgical precautions, 153

at the NHW, 47n70, 134, 153

Alexander, Wendy, 3n6

Amidon, Lynne A., 67n121, 258n90

anaesthesia, 3, 4, 5, 15–16

and death from, 114

and goitre, 53–55

and haemophilia, 115–116

and heart problems, 116–117

and patient perception of advances in surgery, 91

and patient resistance to, 110–111, 173

and patient resistance under, 114

and physical injuries from, 115

and pregnancy, 111

and respiratory problems, 117–118

and respiratory problems with Wertheim's, 169–170

and sickness from, 115

and virginity, 112–113

as a cure, 113–114

at the NHW, 32–34, 52–57

Anderson, Agnes, at Royaumont, 187, 189

on patient behaviour, 227n201

Anderson, Annie, 53–54

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

and accusations of over-zealous surgical practices by Elizabeth Blackwell, 50–52

and female medical student's aptitude for dissection and surgery, 9–10

and lack of inclination towards surgery, 27–28

and ‘manual control’ of NHW, 47

and replacement of outsiders with female surgeons at NHW, 58n105

and resignation from NHW, 46, 47, 57

and St Mary's Dispensary, 20, 26

and surgical problems at NHW, 28–45, 54, 57

and women's suitability for surgery, 16–17

as a medical student, 8–9

Anderson, Florence, 199

Anderson, Louisa Garrett

and CBE, 231

and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's dislike of surgery, 28

and value of pathology in cancer diagnosis at NHW, 151–153

and wartime encouragement of LSMW students, 237, 242

and WHC, 2, 183–184, 256, 275

and WHC B.I.P.P. trials, 72, 196

and WHC press coverage, 197

and Women's Hospital for Children, 191–192

on Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, 69n2

on Mary Scharlieb's surgical skills, 16

antisepsis, 5, 11, 39n43, 134

asepsis, 2, 3, 4, 5, 39n43, 70, 134

and patient confidence, 88

difficulties achieving during Great War, 211

Association of Registered Medical Women, 97

Atkins, Louisa

at the BMHW, 17–18

at the NHW, 36–42, 44

bacteriology

as an aid to surgery, 193, 195, 196, 223–225

developments in, 80

opposition to, 39n43

Ball, Charles, 144, 146

Banerjee, Arpan K., 209n128, 220n182

Bantock, George Granville, 39

Barker, Annie Reay, 18

Bashford, E.F., 175, 176

Beatty v Cullingworth, 49–50, 93n100

Berdoe, Edward, 11n31

Berkeley, Comyns, 130n7, 159–160

and tracing patients, 171

and Wertheim's, 166–167, 168–169, 170n103

Bermondsey Medical Mission, 173

Berry, Augusta, 190

Berry, James, 54–55, 77, 89, 91, 93, 94, 110, 113, 260

Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, 17–18, 36

Birmingham Gazette and Express, 248

Birmingham General Hospital, 254

Bittel, Carla, 3n6

Black, Clementina, and sweated industries, 212–213

Blackwell, Elizabeth, 30, 48, 50–52, 57, 59, 68

Blackwood's Magazine, 183n6, 194, 199, 211–212, 218–219, 227

Bland-Sutton, John, and cancer, 129, 141–142, 159

Boer War, and surgery, 194–195

Bonney, Victor, 130n7, 159–160

and Wertheim's, 166–167, 168–169

Bourke, Joanna, 93n103

Bowlby, Sir Anthony, and war surgery, 189, 193–194

Bowlby, Sir Anthony, and X-rays in war surgery, 214–215, 216

Boyd, Florence Nightingale, 46–47, 57–58, 154, 166, 167

Boyd, Stanley, 54

Brieger, Gert H., 194n60

British Journal of Radiology, 274n159

British Journal of Surgery, 5–6, 192

British Medical Association (BMA), 31, 132, 134, 164, 165, 166

British Medical Journal (BMJ), 1–2, 14, 15, 19n56, 31, 31n20, 36, 39n43, 42n51, 48–49, 53, 54, 55–56, 57n100, 60, 64, 66, 116, 116n230, 130n8, 145, 189, 192, 224, 270, 274

Brooks, Louie M., 24n70, 242, 247–248

Bryder, Linda, 84n51

Burney, Ian, 52–53, 114, 115

Butler, Marion, and SWH, 198

Cahill, Audrey Fawcett, 197n71

Cameron, Murdoch, 166

cancer, 84, 84n51

and acetone shortages in wartime, 162n78

and acetone treatment, 162

and misdiagnosis, 152

and operability, 159–162

and ‘quack’ treatments for, 152

and women surgeons, 4, 23, 128–180

professional pessimism towards, 133, 134, 148–150

scraping and cauterising for, 162–163

Cantor, David, 172n110

Carden-Coyne, Ana, 182n3, 189n34, 191n43, 196n69, 215n160, 231n216, 261n107

Carr, J. Walter, 117

Cavell, Edith, 207

Chadburn, Maud

and defence of female-run hospitals for women, 280–282

and simultaneous holding of posts, 47n70

and the SLHW, 20, 275–284, 285

on Louisa Aldrich-Blake, 258

Chamberlain, Joseph, 18

Chamberland, Celeste, 3n5

Chambers, Helen, 196n69

Charing Cross Hospital, 54, 239, 252

Chelsea Hospital for Women, 49, 68

Cherbourg, French Hospital No. 2, 259, 261, 270–272

Chesser, Elizabeth Sloan, 277n175

Cheyne, William Watson, 147–150

Christie Cancer Hospital, 159

Clapham Maternity Hospital, 101, 173–174

Clark-Kennedy, A.E., 75n22

Cock, Julia Hornblower, 46–47

Cocroft, Wayne D., 162n78

co-education, 237, 238–241, 281

Coleman, Julie, 235n2

Collum, Vera (‘Skia’)

and challenges of SWH's surgical load, 198–199, 200

and gas gangrene, 218–219

and ‘knocking up’, 189–190

and managing the SWH's press, 190–191

and operating room hierarchy at Royaumont, 211–212, 213

and patient reactions to surgery at Royaumont, 194, 194n58, 227–228

and septic finger, 211

and X-ray burns, 190, 211, 211n137

Common Cause

and Elsie Inglis, 197

and Frances Ivens, 219n179

and ‘knocking up’, 189–191

and patients at Royaumont, 188, 227, 227n199, 228–229

and political allegiances of SWH, 183n7

and Royaumont's Weinberg trial, 223–224

and SWH X-ray car, 206–207

and SWH X-ray work, 208–209

convalescent homes, 78, 125, 268

Rosa Morison House of Recovery, 138–139

Cooter, Roger, 191, 192, 215n160

Courtauld, Elizabeth

and army rations, 285

and civilian patients at Royaumont, 204

and Croix de Guerre, 231

and patients at Royaumont, 228

and SWH, 189

and the SWH, 186

at Villers-Cotterets, 199–200

Creil, Casualty Clearing Station at, 196, 202, 219

Cripps, Harrison, 144–145

Crofton, Eileen, 182n5, 184n10, 185n13

Crowther, M. Anne, 3n6

Cullen, Lynsey, 54n92, 70n3, 72n12, 74n20, 77, 77n27, 79, 88, 91, 99, 101, 107–108, 117n235, 123n277, 261–262, 277n174

Curie, Marie, 205, 205n110

Currie, David, 257

Daily Chronicle, 48, 49, 50–52, 57, 68, 248, 279

Daily Graphic, 19, 242

Daily Mail, 12–13, 197

Daily News and Leader, 279, 280

Daily Sketch, 10, 24–25

Daily Telegraph, 244, 256, 279

Davies, Emily, 8

Davies, Margaret Llewelyn

and Letters from Working Women, 83–84, 99, 155n65

Davies-Colley, Eleanor

and the SLHW, 20, 275–284

as first female FRCS, 19

interviewed at HGH, 252

Digby, Anne, 3, 20n59, 73, 89n76, 90

dissection

and women, 9–11, 12–13, 239

Douie, Mary, 10, 12

Dowson, Mary E., 36–37, 40

Dupree, Marguerite, 3n6

Durbach, Nadia, 48n73

Dyhouse, Carol, 12n35

Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children, 21, 191–192

Edwards, Frederick Swinford, 146–147, 150–151, 151n54

Ellis, Harold, 43n57

Elston, Mary Ann, 3n6, 14, 21, 26–27, 29n12, 30n16, 36, 97n127, 107, 248

Erichsen, John Eric, 31n19, 31n20, 30–32, 34

fainting

and medical studies, 8, 10

and operating theatre, 11

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, 43–44, 276

female medical network, 97, 98

Fishman, William, 213n145

Fox, Daniel M., 12

Fulham Military Hospital, 271, 272–275

Gardner, H. Bellamy, 114

and surgical anaesthesia, 110, 113, 115, 117, 117n234

gas gangrene, 193, 195, 196

and Leila Henry's PhD thesis, 224n190

and pioneering X-ray work by SWH, 215, 218–223

prevention trials (Leclainche and Vallée), 224–225

prevention trials (Weinberg and Séguin), 196, 224n188, 223–225

Geddes, Jennian, 3n5, 21n65, 182n5, 183n7, 189n33, 191n48, 195

Gedroits, Vera, 183n9

Gellhorn, George, 163

general practitioners

and correspondence with hospital surgeons, 88–90

and examination of patients, 95–97

German Hospital, 92

Gillis, Jonathan, 72

Girl's Own Paper, 181

Glasgow Herald, 198

Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 207

Glasgow Western Infirmary, 159

Goldberg, Daniel S., 274n154

Granshaw, Lindsay, 144

Great Northern Hospital (GNH)

and employment of medical women in wartime, 255–256

Great War, 2, 3, 3n5, 4, 12, 20, 21, 23–25

and changing attitudes to abdominal surgery, 193

and changing attitudes to head injuries, 193–194

and inevitable ‘knocking up’ of surgical teams, 189

and opportunities for women due to shortage of male colleagues, 234–285

and plastic surgery, 196n66

and shortage of radium, 162, 162n78, 178

and surgery at the Front, 181–233

and surgery on Home Front, 234–285

Gull, Sir William, 14–15

Guy, Jean M., 209n128

Guy's Hospital, 242

gynaecology

as a specialty, 8, 136, 155–156 and passim

Hamilton, Cicely

and SWH, 202n92, 206

Hampstead General Hospital (HGH)

and employment of medical women in wartime, 249–252

Harrison, Mark, 181–182, 194n56, 202, 217n172, 258

Henley, W.E.,

and ‘The Patient’, 70–71

Henry, Leila (Lydia)

and Croix de Guerre, 231

and letters from patients at Royaumont, 229–231

and PhD thesis on effects of serums on gas gangrene, 224n190

and SWH, 185n13, 185–186, 202n93, 204n103, 224

in Sheffield, 185, 191, 252–253, 257, 266

Heslop, Thomas, 36

Heys, Steven D., 183n9

Hirst, Geoffrey, 132n15

Hoggan, Frances

and resignation from NHW, 29–31

Holmes, John D., 196n66

Homeopathic Hospital, 92

Hospital, 15–16, 243–244, 246–247

Howell, Joel D., 136, 138n28, 209n127, 271n137

Hutchins, B.L.

and Women in Modern Industry, 82

Hutchinson, Alice

and SWH, 197

Hutton, Isabel Emslie (also Isabel Emslie)

and Order of St Sava, 231

and ‘surgical hankering’, 11–12

and SWH, 185–186, 231–233

Illustrated London News, 61–62, 138n29

Imlach, Francis, 41–42

Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 175

India

and women patients, 79, 97

and women surgeons, 11, 24

Inglis, Elsie

and death, 197

and Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children, 21

and SWH, 183, 197

at Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children, 191–192

Ivens, Frances

a ‘cormorant for work’, 233

and Croix de Guerre, 231

and gas gangrene, 195, 219n179, 219–225, 225n192

and need for surgical equipment at Royaumont, 210–211

and patient reactions to, 227–231

and surgical assistance from Louisa Aldrich-Blake, 259

and SWH, 186–191, 192, 192n52, 194, 197n72, 198–199, 201–202, 203

and treatment of civilians at Royaumont, 204n106, 204–205

and trouble with staff at Royaumont, 186–188, 199n84, 212–213, 213n146

and value of war surgery for later career, 232

Jacyna, Steven, 61n110, 132n13

Jex-Blake, Sophia, 17

Jordanova, Ludmilla, 6

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (JOGBE), 136

Keetley, Charles Bell, 9

Keith, Mrs, 53, 54

Keith, Skene, 43

Kelly, Howard A.

and cancer, 95, 128–129

and visit to RFH, 112, 112n203

Kelly, Laura, 3n6, 239n14

King Edward's Hospital Fund, 133

Knight, Adela, 13–14

Knight, Pamela, 104, 104n167

Kraske, Paul, 145

Lady, 237

lady almoner

at RFH, 74, 277n174, 283–284

at SLHW, 277

Lady's Pictorial, 13–14, 237

Lancet, 56, 57n100, 162n78, 196n69, 197n74, 205n110, 224n188, 245n39, 245–246, 288

Laurie, Jessie

and SWH, 207n120, 210n133, 217, 218, 232–233, 270, 273

Lawrence, Christopher, 6, 12, 19

Lawrence, Ghislaine, 47n72

Lawrence, Margot, 22n66, 183n7

Legg, Thomas, 175

Leneman, Leah, 182n5, 183n7

Light, Sue, 182n5, 212n140

Lindsay, Gertrude H.

and SWH, 199

Liverpool Mercury, 42n51

Lockyer, Cuthbert, 136, 155–156, 175

Logan, Dorothy Cochrane

and dismissal from Royaumont, 212–213

Lomax, Scott C., 253n65

London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine (L(RFH)SMWM), 71, 72, 90–91, 234–235, 241–242, 247, 287–288

London Hospital, The, 75n22, 239, 241n23

London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW), 10, 12–13, 14, 18–19, 67, 97, 191

and male patients at Gate, 264

and ‘war concordat’ with St Mary's, 239–241

in wartime, 237, 238, 241–248, 255–256, 276, 278, 281

Loudon, Katharine

and SWH, 188, 194, 202–203, 206–207

on Frances Ivens, 233

Lowenfeld, Helena (later Wright)

and concerns over ancestry in wartime, 238, 250

as a medical student, 238

at HGH, 249–251

Löwy, Ilana, 61n110, 84n51, 131n9, 130–132, 133n17, 152n58, 162n78, 163–164, 165, 174

Manchester Guardian, 238–239, 279

Manton, Jo, 30n18

Marsh, F. Howard, 248

Martindale, Louisa, 209n129

Martland, Edith Marjorie, 190

Martland, Peggy

and HGH, 249–251

Marx, Clare

as first female President of RCS, 286

Marylebone Hospital for Women, 92

McDonald, Alexander, 215

McIlroy, Louise, 186, 200

accused of lax discipline, 212

and Order of St Sava, 231

and patient response to, 230

and personal charm, 212n139

and rehabilitation of soldiers, 216–217

and SWH, 184, 216

and tensions with Edith Stoney, 210n130, 213–214

McKeown, Thomas, 276n166

McLaren, Barbara

Women of the War, 183n6, 197n71, 216, 217, 270, 274–275

Medical Defence Union, 199n84

Medical Record

and anaesthesia at NHW, 52–57

Medical Register, 24, 50, 242, 246, 259

medical students (female), 9–10, 12–15, 18–19, 248

and opportunities in wartime, 235–247

as patients at RFH, 82n35

in wartime, 245n39, 252–253, 254–255

medical students (male), 8–9

shortage in wartime, 235–236, 237–239, 242

Meredith, W.A., 27, 32n23, 32–34, 35n33, 36, 37–38, 40

Middlesex Hospital, 8–9, 154n63, 160, 178

and cancer research, 144

Monger, David, 181n1, 182n3

Morantz-Sanchez, Regina, 3n6, 6n14, 42n51, 73, 127

More, Ellen S., 3n6, 21

Morning Post, 242, 243, 279

Moscucci, Ornella, 23n68, 49, 84n51, 130–131, 132, 133n17, 134n22, 135, 156n68, 162n78, 164, 165

Moynihan, Sir Berkeley, 193, 193n53

Mummery, P. Lockhart, 144n36, 148

Murphy, Caroline, 83–84, 134n19, 151n57, 162n78, 175, 176n127, 178n134

Murray, Flora

and CBE, 231

and patient reactions to WHC surgeons, 225–227

and WHC, 2, 183–184, 196, 231n218, 256, 274–275

and WHC press coverage, 197

and Women's Hospital for Children, 191

Murrell, Christine, 17, 20

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

and support for SWH, 183

National Weekly, 197, 285

nephrectomies, 43, 44

New Hospital for Women (NHW), 13–14, 21, 22, 26–68, 74, 155, 159, 251, 259, 276, 277

age restriction for boy patients, 262

and cancer treatment, 23, 133–154, 160, 163–166, 167, 168n97

and Great War, 182

and Rosa Morison House of Recovery, 138–139

and surgical success, 248

and Wertheim's, 167, 168

and X-ray treatment, 135–137

New Journalism, 10

Newton, Olive, 254, 255

Nicholson, Ruth

and patient response to, 228–229

and SWH, 190, 198–199

Nolte, Karen, 134n22

Obstetrical Society, 64

operating room

and hierarchy, 212

operating theatre, 4, 6, 15, 22, 25, 36

and bombardment during Great War, 200

and demands upon operator, 9

and humour within, 256

and ‘knocking up’, 190

and lighting, 182, 208, 209

and male fainting, 10

and stimulation of, 28

and SWH's desire to hide reality of, 188–189

and women's presence within, 1–2, 7–8, 19

smells, sights, sounds within, 11, 218–219

ophthalmic surgery, 43

orthopaedic surgery

and amputation, 2, 193, 194, 198, 203

and gas gangrene, 225

and reamputations on home front, 266–267

and women surgeons' experience of, 191–192

ovariotomy, 10–11, 39n43, 42n51, 49

at the NHW, 29–32, 34, 43, 49–52, 61, 64, 65

Paddington Children's Hospital, 14

Paddington Times, 32–34

Pall Mall Gazette, 24n70, 242n30, 279

Pannett, Charles, 247, 260

Parkes, Charles T., 43

Parkes, Louis, 49

Pasteur Institute

and SWH, 223–225

pathology

and cancer, 84

and importance to surgery, 60–61, 111, 130, 131–132, 151–153, 163, 179

and importance to surgery in Great War, 195

developments in, 80

patients (children), 21, 24

and restrictions on age of boy patients in women's hospitals, 262

as potential preparation for orthopaedic surgery, 191–192

at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, 255

at the NHW, 58, 133

at the RFH, 82, 120, 191, 241, 261–262

at the SLHW, 275–276, 281–282, 284

injured soldiers reduced to during Great War, 228

treated by SWH in Serbia, 204

patients (men)

female surgeons' treatment of during Great War, 181–233

female surgeons' treatment of during Great War on Home Front, 234–275

patients (private)

at RFH, 88, 93, 98

at SLHW, 277–284

patients (women)

and cancer treatment at the NHW, 133–154

and cancer treatment at the RFH, 154–178

at the NHW, 61–66

at the SLHW during Great War, 275–285

in the Gynaecological Department of the RFH, 69–127

on home front at the RFH, 261–266

response to cancer diagnosis and treatment at RFH, 154–180

treatment of French civilians by SWH, 204–205

Pechey, Edith, 18

Phear, Arthur, 169

on Louisa Aldrich-Blake, 260

Pickstone, John V., 133n16, 173

Pinch, A.E. Hayward, 174–175

Platt, Kate, 151–152, 165

and value of pathology in cancer diagnosis at NHW, 153

Poovey, Mary, 6n14, 72–73

Prideaux, Helen, 14–15

Prochaska, F.K., 133n18, 277

Punch, 9, 16, 225–226

Queen, 252–253

radium

and cancer treatment, 23, 131, 151, 155, 162–163, 287

and treatment for inoperable cancer at the RFH, 174–178

shortages of during Great War, 64

Radium Institute, 151, 174–175, 177, 178

radium treatment

post-Wertheim's operation at the RFH, 176–178

Ramsay, Mabel L., 270–272

rectal surgery

and operability, 151n54

at the NHW, 58

for cancer at the NHW, 134, 151, 179

Riddell, Lord George, 145n41, 258n90, 259

Riha, Ortrun, 72, 119, 120

Risse, Guenter B., 72, 87, 287

Routh, Amand, 164, 165

Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 192–193, 238, 252, 257–258, 259

Royal College of Physicians (RCP), 19, 238

Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), 7–8, 18–19, 31, 238, 286

and first female FRCS, 19

and War Relics Exhibition, 218

FRCS, 19, 186, 252

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), 36

Royal Free Hospital (RFH), 21, 22–23, 54, 182, 270, 277, 280

and cancer treatment at, 128–133

and Gate (Casualty Department), 104, 191, 241, 264, 266

and LSMW, 67

and patient experience at, 69–127

and patient response to cancer diagnosis and treatment at, 154–180

and surgical patients (male and female) during Great War, 259–270

Royal Society of Medicine, 164

Russell, Beatrice

and SWH, 188, 210, 219

not a suffragist, 183n7

Rutherford, Margaret

and resignation from Royaumont, 187–188

Samaritan Free Hospital, 37, 38, 39

Sargeant, Edith, 96

Savill, Agnes

and Great War service, 182

and pioneering use of X-rays in diagnosing gas gangrene, 218–225

and X-ray car at Royaumont, 205–207

Scharlieb, Mary, 22, 23, 28, 145, 175

and abdominal hysterectomy, 165–166, 167

and cancer treatment at the RFH, 128, 130, 134, 155–163, 173

and gynaecological patients at the RFH, 69–127, 262

and importance of pathology to surgery, 59–61, 151, 152–153

and LSMW, 243

and NHW, 44–68

and surgery in India, 11

and surgical skills, 16, 21, 66–67

and the NHW, 37–39

on Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 27

Schlich, Thomas, 6, 47n72, 54n93, 211n135, 287n4

Scotland, Thomas R., 217n172

Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH), 12, 237, 257, 259, 270

and work in Europe during Great War, 181–233

Select Committee on Metropolitan Hospitals, 10–11

Sheffield Royal Infirmary, 185, 252–253

shellshock, 182, 269, 271

Sinclair, William Japp, 132, 158, 159

Smith, J.W., 150

Snow, Stephanie, 110

Society for the Protection of Hospital Patients, 92

Soho Hospital, 92

Somme, Battle of the

and FMH, 273–274

and the SWH, 198, 202n92, 219

South London Hospital for Women (SLHW), 20, 21, 23, 24, 236, 244, 275–285

and paying wards, 277–280

and shortage of staff in wartime, 254–255

and Wertheim's operation, 167

Southern Hospital, 159

Spencer, Herbert, 64, 129n5, 134, 159

splenectomies, 43n57, 43n60, 43–44

St George's Hospital, 99, 239

St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, 144, 147, 151

St Mary's Hospital, 92, 240n20, 247

and female medical students, 239, 240–241, 246

St Thomas’ Hospital, 15, 242

Stanley, Peter, 28n10, 194n59

Stevenson, Doris

and criticism of Royaumont, 186–187, 187n22, 199n84, 228

Stoney, Edith, 232

and difficulties with equipment, 215

and disputes with SWH, 207–210, 210n130

and need for ‘efficiency’ in Great War, 189

and tensions with Louise McIlroy, 213–214

and vital nature of X-ray equipment to surgical units in Great War, 214

at Villers-Cotterets, 199–200

award of Croix de Guerre and Order of St Sava, 231

Stoney, Florence, 196, 258, 261, 274n159

and death of, 274

and ‘efficiency’ of women's work in Great War, 233

and ‘knocking up’, 274

at Antwerp and Cherbourg, 270–272

at FMH, 272–275

on Edith Stoney's vital work for SWH, 208–209

Sunday Chronicle, 7

surgical gloves, 47n72, 210–211, 211n135, 218, 227

surgical instruments, 3, 7, 16, 47, 47n72, 48, 108

and Great War, 198, 204, 218, 227

surgical mask, 227

surgical overalls

and adaptations for SWH women, 195

Swain, James, 193

Swan, R.H. Jocelyn, 202n95

Szreter, Simon, 276n166

Tait, Lawson, 43n60, 44

Thomas, Adrian K., 209n128, 220n182

Thomson, Elaine, 3n6, 22, 22n66, 183n7

Thorne, May, 88, 152

and after-effects of surgery on patients, 64–66

Thornton, Knowsley, 27, 37, 38, 39, 43, 43n57

Timmermann, Carsten, 131n12

Todd, George Bell, 57n100

and criticism of NHW's anaesthetic practices, 52–57, 59

Toon, Elizabeth, 131n12

trench foot, 182, 202n95

at RFH, 267

Treves, Frederick

on Mary Scharlieb, 16, 67

on X-ray in surgery, 175

tuberculosis, 84, 84n51, 133

Tweedy, E. Hastings, 169

University College Hospital, 92, 134

University College London, 138n29, 239, 246

University of Edinburgh, 11, 17

University of London

Medical Schools opening their doors to women students in wartime, 239

vaccination, 48

Vaughan-Sawyer, Ethel, 22, 23, 67

and cancer treatment at the RFH, 128–130, 131–133, 154–180

and gynaecological patients at the RFH, 69–127, 262

and patient adoration of, 130n8

and Wertheim's operation at RFH, 163–170

venereal disease

and munition work, 265, 265n116

in Great War, 182

Verney, Ruth

and SWH, 185–186, 189, 200, 202, 204, 217, 285

as a medical student in Manchester, 191, 237–238, 254, 257

at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, 255

at the GNH, 255–256

on Louise McIlroy, 212n139

vivisection

and surgery, 30, 48, 65, 164, 173

Votes for Women, 279, 288

Waddington, Keir, 89n78, 277n174

Walker, Jane, 257

as President of the Medical Women's Federation, 248n48

on Mary Scharlieb, 66–67

Wallace, Colonel Cuthbert

and war surgery, 189, 193–194

and X-rays in war surgery, 214–215

Wangensteen, Owen H., 21n62, 211n135

Wangensteen, Sarah D., 21n62, 211n135

War Office, 23, 256, 260, 271, 272, 275

Warner, John Harley, 72, 287

Webb, Miss, 46–47

Weinberg, Michel

and SWH, 223–225

Weisz, George, 21n64, 155, 194n55

Wells, Sir Thomas Spencer, 4–5, 15, 27, 34, 36, 39, 43n57, 49

Wertheim's operation, 23, 258

and length, 179

at the RFH, 163–173

Wheeler, Sir William I. De. C., 149

Whitehead, Ian, 183n9, 193n53, 235, 238, 248n48

Whitfield, Nicholas, 287n4

Wilberforce, Octavia

and benefits of medical study at St Mary's, 240–241

Wilde, Sally, 42, 73, 73n17, 95n117, 106, 110n194, 123n277, 132n15, 146, 154, 154n63

Willey, Florence (later Lady Barrett), 70n3, 175

Wilson, Thomas, 80

Winter, J.M., 276n166

Women's Hospital Corps (WHC), 183, 237

and B.I.P.P. trials at Endell Street, 196

at Endell Street, 184, 237, 256, 275

at Hôtel Claridge, 2, 197, 225

at Wimereux, 184, 225

Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

and backing of WHC, 183

Woollacott, Angela, 265n116

Worboys, Michael, 5n8, 39n43

Wyman, A.L., 3n5

X-rays, 3, 70, 175, 265, 267, 268, 269

and cancer treatment, 131, 155, 162, 174, 287

and diagnosis of gas gangrene, 218–225

and Great War, 182, 195, 198–200, 205–210, 213–225, 270–275

and injuries to operators, 190, 211, 272–274

and treatment post-Wertheim's at the RFH, 175–178

for diagnosis and treatment at NHW, 137

Zentralblatt für Gynaekologie, 163

Zeppelin raids

on London, 260, 264

on Sheffield, 185, 253, 253n65

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