Milestone · 25 October 1993

Averil Mansfield becomes the UK’s first woman professor of surgery

On 25 October 1993, Averil Mansfield became the first woman appointed professor of surgery in the United Kingdom, a landmark for women in academic surgery.

Archival photograph of the New York Foundling Hospital operating room circa 1899. — Operating room in New York, circa 1899. Contextual archival photograph, not the event described.
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Byron Company / Museum of the City of New York / Wikimedia Commons · Domaine public · photographie de 1899
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October 25 – On This Day in Medical History
Life in the Fast Lane (LITFL) · Historical date : 1993-10-25

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