PMID- 19097383
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090127
LR  - 20181201
IS  - 0025-8105 (Print)
IS  - 0025-8105 (Linking)
VI  - 61
IP  - 7-8
DP  - 2008 Jul-Aug
TI  - ["Serbian mother from Scotland"--Dr. Elsie Inglis (1864-1917)].
PG  - 419-26
AB  - INTRODUCTION: 90 years ago, on November 26th, 1917, died Dr. Elsie Inglis, one of 
      the greatest heroines of the First World War, founder and driving force of the 
      famous "Scottish Women's Hospitals", and one of the most interesting persons in 
      the history of medicine in general, and especially in Serbia where she and her 
      hospitals were of the greatest help in the most difficult times. CHILDHOOD AND 
      EDUCATION: Elsie Maud Inglis was born in India in 1864, in a Scottish family 
      which in 1878 moved back to Scotland where Elsie studied medicine and graduated 
      from the Edinburgh University in 1899. Medical practice and Women's Movement 
      (1894-1914) Dr. E. Inglis worked in Edinburgh, where in 1904. She opened a small 
      hospital for women and children called "The Hospice", which was staffed only by 
      women. She was also very active in the Women's Movement (the so-called 
      suffragettes), fighting for the women's rights and for the Vote. From 1906 until 
      1914 she was Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage 
      Societies. THE FIRST WORLD WAR-THE SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITALS: After the outbreak 
      of the Great War in August, 1914. Dr. E. Inglis immediately organised, through 
      her Federation, the so-called "Scottish Women's Hospitals" (SWH), on the whole 13 
      of them, which worked through the war in France, Belgium, Serbia, Greece 
      (Macedonia), and Russia (Romania). SERBIA, 1915: In.January, 1915 the first Unit 
      of the SWH arrived to Kragujevac, and.soon three more hospitals came to Serbian 
      towns of Valjevo, Lazarevac and Mladenovac. In May 1915 Dr. E. Inglis herself 
      came to Serbia. In October, 1915, when the great offensive of the Central Powers 
      began, all these hospitals were evacuated to Krusevac, where they undertook the 
      task of nursing 900 Serbian wounded at the "Csar Lazar" military hospital. Dr. 
      Inglis and the majority of her staff refused to evacuate any further and stayed 
      with their Serb patients. In November, 1915 they became prisoners of war, but 
      continued to treat their patients until February, 1916 when they were 
      repatriated. RUSSIA, 1916-1917: Back home, Dr. E. Inglis formed a new large SWH 
      Unit, which, headed by herself sailed for Russia in August, 1916, and soon joined 
      the so-called Yugoslav Volunteer Division, consisting mainly of Serbs, fighting 
      on the Dobrudja front. After heavy losses and many retreats the remainder of this 
      division, together with the SWH were evacuated back to England, to Newcastle, 
      where Dr. E. Inglis, who was already seriously ill, died, on November 26th, 1917. 
      She was later buried in Edinburgh, with full military honours. EPILOGUE: High 
      honours were bestowed posthumously on Dr. E. Inglis both by Great Britain and 
      Serbia, and now, 90 years after her death, we should remember her with deep 
      gratitude and respect for all she did for our people in the most difficult times 
      of its history.
FAU - Mikic, Zelimir
AU  - Mikic Z
AD  - Medicinski fakultet Novi Sad.
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, 20th Century
MH  - Hospitals, Military/*history
MH  - Humans
MH  - Physicians, Women/*history
MH  - Scotland
MH  - Serbia
MH  - Women's Health Services/*history
MH  - *World War I
PS  - Inglis E
FPS - Inglis, Elsie
EDAT- 2008/12/23 09:00
MHDA- 2009/01/28 09:00
CRDT- 2008/12/23 09:00
PHST- 2008/12/23 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2008/12/23 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/01/28 09:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Pregl. 2008 Jul-Aug;61(7-8):419-26.