Miranda Barry

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Miranda Barry

British surgeon

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…not allowed to become doctors, Miranda Barry dressed as a man and obtained a degree in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She then became an army surgeon and ended her career as inspector general of military hospitals in Canada in 1857, after serving in the Crimean War.
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…not allowed to become doctors, Miranda Barry dressed as a man and obtained a degree in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She then became an army surgeon and ended her career as inspector general of military hospitals in Canada in 1857, after serving in the Crimean War.
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