Papers of Harriet Bird 2 January 1899

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Papers of Harriet Bird 2 January 1899

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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

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Wertheim, Ernst, 1864-1920

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Harriet Amelia Scott Bird was born in County Durham in 1864 and studied medicine at the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, 1893-1898. On graduation she went to Vienna to study gynaecology under Ernst Wertheim at the Elizabeth Hospital in Vienna (1898) and then to Berlin, before returning to Scotland to take a role as non-resident house surgeon, Leith Hospital. She gave up medicine after her marriage in 1901, and died in 1934. From the guide to the Papers of Harriet Bird, 2 January...