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Elsie
Inglis
 Elsie
Inglis: Founder of Battlefield... Hospitals Run Entirely
by Women. For over half a century, Edinburgh babies were born
in the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital and the Elsie Inglis maternity
ward at the Western General. But surgeon Inglis' contribution
to the capital's maternity services ranks second to the 'truly
glorious woman's' (Bishop of Oxford) international achievements
as founder of Scottish Women's Hospitals for the Foreign Service.
Leah Leneman vividly describes Elsie's creation of a visionary
organisation that sent over 1000 women to the Front as doctors,
nurses, orderlies and drivers. We sense the incredible courage
of a hands-on leader who herself ran the medical services in
Serbia, cared for patients under German occupation, evaded enemy
capture in Romania and held her unit together in the Russian
Revolution. Elsie
Inglis.
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