Gladys Maud Sandes

[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.

According to her obituary, she 'greatly prized' her position at the Lock Hospital - although the institution was closed after changes brought in by the foundation of the National Health Service.

In 1929, she published a textbook on the nervous system based on her work as Demonstrator of Anatomy at the London School of Medicine for Women.

[4] Many women doctors of the early twentieth century focused on venereal diseases - an area of work which was less competitive than some other male dominated specialties.

[9] Sandes is remembered as an enthusiastic traveller - visiting the United States, Russia, South African and many European countries.

[2] In 2018, Sandes and her work at the London Lock Hospital was featured in the exhibition 'This vexed question': 500 years of women in medicine[10] at the Royal College of Physicians.

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.