Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
John Lizars
Standard Name: Lizars, John
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John Lizars
of Edinburgh performed the first ovariotomy in Britain; it was later discovered that the patient had been misdiagnosed and the operation was unnecessary.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929–2026, 1-20.
