In the history of medicine, Margaret Matilda White is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Margaret Matilda White as New Zealand photographer and nurse (1868-1910).
Margaret Matilda White was born at Belfast in 1868. Her recorded nationality is New Zealand.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Her posts were held at John Robert Hanna.
The recorded fields of work are photography.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from New Zealand matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Margaret Matilda White died in 1910, aged 42. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at John Robert Hanna
- Fields: photography
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