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Florence Stoney was well known for her x-ray works in army hospitals. She was in practice during the first world war and therefore one of the major things she is known for.

Aside from her training in London School of medicine for women, Florence was trained at home because of her health issues. She is a dedicated student in many sectors during her study in M.B. London as she took honor classes in anatomy, physiology and materia medica.

She published A scientific Journal in the year 1900 and was in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology.

She continued to work in other hospitals, such as the Royal Free Hospital and the New Hospital for Women in London, where she started X-ray units. While working in theses hospitals she was also a consultant. As well as that she Stoney was a demonstrator in anatomy at the London School of Medecine for women.

The inequality for women in the medical field did not stop her from forming a surgical unit of women doctors and nurses, under the administration of Mrs. St. Clair Stobart and the Women’s Imperial Service League. This was formed after being rejected by the government for offering her service at the outbreak of the First World War. She served as the head of Medical staff and radiologist in this surgical Unit. In 1915, her service to the war office was accepted, whereby she was the first woman to be accepted full time at the war office.

In 1915 she was given a position in the x-ray department in the one thousand bed in Fullham Military Hospital. During her stay at this hospital, she remained for a long time, the only female medical staff at the hospital. Stoney was in that position until 1918.

She received an O.B.E for her her services in the war, even though she had no military rank.It was awarded to her as she worked very hard under extreme conditions.

After her four years of military work, Florence Stoney moved to Bournemouth where she had a big specialist practice and held the position of a consulting medical officer for two Bournemouth Hospitals in the radiology department. In addition to that she was also the consulting actinotherapist at the Victoria Cripples Home and served as president of the Wessex Branch Institute of Radiology. She wrote a number of articles to the medical literature on topics mainly on radiology.

Stoney was remembered by her colleagues for her gay time humor.