The strange story of Dr. James Barry, army surgeon, Inspector-General of Hospitals
Subtitle: discovered on death to be a woman
Publisher: Longmans, Green
Published: 1958
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Surgeons; Biography; Transvestes; Impostors and imposture; Physicians; Transvestism
Description: After more than 40 years of service in the British Army as a surgeon, and attaining high rank, it was discovered that the diminutive but redoubtable Dr. James Barry was a woman ; she may have been the first woman of modern times to qualify as a doctor and practise as a surgeon, which, according to contemporary sources, she practised with remarkable intelligence and skill.
Notes: Includes index and bibliography.