Stethoscope and Saddlebags by McLaglan, Eleanor.

Publisher: Collins, 1965, first edition.

Very good hardback with jacket. Binding firm, rubbing, bumping, minor marks, no inscriptions.
Jacket is rubbed, creased and marked.

Autobiography of Dr. Eleanor Southey Baker McLaglan, the sixth woman to train as a doctor in New Zealand.
It details her early 20th-century medical training at the University of Otago. Chronicles her challenging experiences setting up a general practice on horseback in Wairoa, Northland, where roads were scarce. Details her work during the influenza epidemic, overseas medical experiences in a Dublin slum hospital, and later pioneering work in the School Medical Service. Highlights the professional and societal resistance she faced as one of New Zealand's earliest female physicians.
187 pages.

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