Gladys Maud Sandes

This image shows the London Lock Hospital from the street in the late 18th century. It is a red brick building in the Georgian style on a busy street.
The London Lock Hospital, shown shortly after its establishment in 1747, was the first voluntary venereal disease clinic in Britain. Gladys Sandes became the first female surgeon at the hospital in 1925.

Gladys Maud Sandes Alston FRCS (5 November 1897 – 17 January 1968)[1] was an Irish surgeon and venereologist and the first woman surgeon at the London Lock Hospital in 1925.[2][3] Inspired by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, she became an active member of the medical community and published widely on venereal diseases like syphilis and the treatment of children after sexual assault.[4]

  1. ^ "Deaths". The Times. 18 January 1968. p. 16.
  2. ^ "Sandes, Gladys Maud (Mrs Maxwell Alston) (1897 - 1968)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Obituary- Gladys Maud Sandes". The Lancet: 211–212. 27 January 1968. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(68)92614-7.
  4. ^ "Issue Information". Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 22 (2): 143–144. 27 March 2016. doi:10.1111/jep.12533. ISSN 1356-1294.