PMID- 16673866
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060530
LR  - 20190922
IS  - 0025-8105 (Print)
IS  - 0025-8105 (Linking)
VI  - 58
IP  - 11-12
DP  - 2005 Nov-Dec
TI  - Scottish Women's Hospitals--the 90th anniversary of their work in Serbia.
PG  - 597-608
AB  - The Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH), a unique health institution in the history 
      of medicine, staffed entirely by women, was founded soon after the outbreak of 
      the First World War, August 12, 1914 in Edinburgh, by the National Union of 
      Women's Suffrage Societies. The founder and the main driving force behind this 
      organisation was Dr. Elsie Inglis (1864-1917). Although her proposition to the 
      British War Office had been rejected, she offered her services to the Allies 
      (France, Belgium, Russia and Serbia). The first 200 bed SWH unit was sent to 
      France in November 1914, and soon after followed other units, so at the end there 
      were 13 very well equipped SWH units working in the various theatres of war in 
      Belgium, Serbia, Russia, Rumania and Greece. The first unit of SWH came to Serbia 
      in early January 1915, and was located at Kragujevac. Soon after, three other SWH 
      units arrived to Serbia and were stationed at Mladenovac, Valjevo and Lazarevac. 
      It was an enormous help to Serbia, full of wounded and sick people, due to the 
      dreadful typhus epidemic which was devastating the country. A large SWH unit, 
      attached to the Southern Slav Volunteer Division, had worked on the Dobrudja 
      front, and there were three hospitals and a special transport unit on the 
      Salonika Front, which were all engaged in the treatment of Serbian wounded 
      soldiers until the end of the First World War. Two other SWH units, located in 
      France, were treating the Serbian refugees. Serving bravely and honorably on the 
      various theatres of war, the legendary Scottish Women's Hospitals made enormous 
      contributions to the allied war efforts, and helped Serbian people a great deal.
FAU - Mikic, Zelimir
AU  - Mikic Z
AD  - Medicinski fakultet Novi Sad. zmikicns@eunet.yu
LA  - eng
LA  - srp
PT  - Biography
PT  - Historical Article
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Portrait
PL  - Serbia
TA  - Med Pregl
JT  - Medicinski pregled
JID - 2985249R
SB  - IM
MH  - History, 19th Century
MH  - History, 20th Century
MH  - Hospitals, Military/*history
MH  - Medical Staff, Hospital/history
MH  - Military Nursing/history
MH  - Physicians, Women/history
MH  - Scotland
MH  - *World War I
MH  - Yugoslavia
PS  - Inglis EM
FPS - Inglis, Elsie Maud
EDAT- 2006/05/06 09:00
MHDA- 2006/05/31 09:00
CRDT- 2006/05/06 09:00
PHST- 2006/05/06 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/05/31 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/05/06 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.2298/mpns0512597m [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Pregl. 2005 Nov-Dec;58(11-12):597-608. doi: 10.2298/mpns0512597m.