Mary De Garis lecture notes from surgery and medicine
Maker
Mary Clementina De Garis (b.1881, d.1963)
Date
1911
Description
Three small, thin, pink-covered booklets containing lecture notes - likely for Clinical lectures - attended in 1911 by Mary De Garis(1881–1963) . Subjects were Surgery and Medicine. Mary De Garis (1881–1963) graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1905, and was the second woman in Victoria to gain a Doctor of Medicine, in 1907. After travelling abroad in 1908–10, she was appointed to Tibooburra Hospital. A patriotic feminist, Mary applied to the Australian Army at the commencement of Word War I, but was refused. Despite this, she and about 16 Australian women doctors travelled to Britain to offer their services. Denied enlistment, they worked in various voluntary and paid positions, often with Allied governments and organisations, such as the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (SWH) and Red Cross. About 20 Australian women doctors were directly involved in the war.
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Object detail
name/inscriptions ▫ on outside covers: 'Surgery (Miss R.)' and other notations ▫ no 2
name/inscriptions ▫ on outside covers: 'Medicine (Miss R.)' ▫ no 3
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