Scottish Women's Hospitals Research Articles

Dr Agnes Savill: Pioneer, polymath and dermatology's renaissance woman.

Dr Agnes Savill was the UK's first female consultant dermatologist with a career journey which was, by any standards, extraordinary. She was awarded her MA in 1893 making her the first female graduate from St Andrews University. She then trained as a doctor in Glasgow in the earliest cohort of women granted the opportunity to study medicine. Following qualification, and during her early professional years, she maintained an involvement in the women's suffrage movement by publicly indicting the government for its brutal treatment of women suffrage prisoners in the 'Votes for Women' campaign. During World War 1 Dr Agnes Savill was one of a handful of women doctors who served at the Scottish Women's Hospital, a combat hospital in France. Dr Savill worked as the radiologist for the unit and developed expertise in the radiographic appearances of gas gangrene. After the war she returned to her dermatology practice, becoming the UK's leading expert in disorders of the hair and scalp and publishing widely on the subject. However, Agnes Savill had interests which extended into the humanities, particularly music. She was advocate for the use of music as treatment for psychological and physical disorders and wrote a book on this subject which helped promote music therapy as a para-clinical discipline. In her latter years she became fascinated by the history of classical antiquity and, at the age of 79, published a biography of Alexander the Great, an account praised for being both lucid and authoritative. Agnes Savill was a remarkable pioneering doctor: she was a ground-breaking dermatologist, she fought for women's rights and served in France as a combat doctor. Her work in music therapy and her writings on ancient history brought acclaim beyond the realm of medicine. Dr Agnes Savill is Dermatology's Renaissance Woman.

The Cartography of Memory: Scottish Women's Hospitals around Thessaloniki (Salonika) during the First World War

The Cartography of Memory: Scottish Women's Hospitals around Thessaloniki (Salonika) during the First World War

Dr Catherine Louisa Corbett MB ChB DPH (1877-1960), Diary in Serbia. Her work with the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Serbia and Russia, 1915-1917.

Catherine Corbett was the second woman to gain a medical degree from the University of Manchester Medical School in 1905; however, little was known about her life or work, apart from the fact that she was a School Medical Inspector (SMI) and never married. The rediscovery of her Diary in Serbia (1916) has revealed her work for the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) during the First World War in Serbia (1915-1916). Her time alongside her female colleagues was a good experience, however the harsh conditions, especially those she experienced during a further period working in Russia (1916-1917), left her exhausted and psychologically stressed. After the war, her job as a SMI in Burnley and her pursuit of rock climbing helped her adjust to a normal life and allowed her to promote her views on female education.

From ‘Dearest Mama’ to ‘Dear Mother’: changing styles in early twentieth-century letters from daughters to mothers

In this article, the author looks at two sets of letters sent home to mothers by travelling daughters in the early twentieth century. Both sets of letters come from the Strachey family: one from Philippa Strachey written during the visit she made to India in 1901, the other from her niece, Elinor Rendel, during the period she spent with the Scottish Women's Hospital on the Eastern Front in the First World War. But the letters come from two different generations of women and there are very marked differences between them in style and in content. Both women used their letters as ways to express and to negotiate independent lives while still remaining close to their families, and the author suggests that the differences in their epistolary style serves as much to reflect contrasting approaches to expressions of sentiment and to the appropriate style for writing letters as they do to suggest different relationships between them and their mothers.

The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service--the Girton and Newnham Unit, 1915-1918.

The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service were established shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Opportunities were limited for medical women prior to the war and during it they were unable to obtain a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, hence the formation of these voluntary all-women units. The Girton and Newnham Unit, under the leadership of Dr L McIlroy, served with distinction in France, Serbia and Greece, demonstrating clinical competence in the management of the emergency medical and surgical problems associated with warfare, areas usually off-limits to women doctors. They were severely tested but showed endurance and resilience in the running of their hospital in the most difficult of conditions.

Foreign medical help in Serbian liberation wars from 1912 until 1918

This work concerns involvement of the foreign medical missions during the Serbian Liberation Wars from 1912 until 1918, the work of their members immediately behind the front lines and in the back, healing of the wounded and the diseased, especially at the time of the great epidemics of typhoid fever, and also the efforts of numerous Serbian friends who collected the funds and material for equipping and sending of those missions. An American mission which came first to Serbia, soon after the beginning of the war operations and which was led by Dr. Edward Ryan, was specially mentioned. For many smaller of bigger missions, it is known that they acted in some of the Serbian war zones. A special attention was paid to the work of The Scottish Women's Hospital, its formation and means of funding, work in war conditions, attitudes towards wounded Serbs and posture during the Serbian retreat before the German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian occupying armies. This text is largely the author's own view of his two books on medical assistance which the Serbs received from their friends from abroad (Medical Missions at Serbian Battlefields 1912-1918 and The Scottish Women with the Serbs 1914-1918). The first of these booklets contains a list with over 1350 names (of which, approximately 700 are the medical doctors), and the other 1230, were based on the author's personal inspection of the available literature and materials, significantly increased the official data of the Serbian Red Cross about the number of medical staff who reached Serbian battlefields: doubles them for the Balkan wars, while in the Great war they were at least five times greater.

Hannah Jessie Hankin-Hardy, in medical and humanitarian mission in Serbia during the great war

The Studenica Monastery, built in 1186 A.D., the royal mausoleum of the Nemanjic Dynasty, is considered the forerunner of the Serbian statehood and conscience because in it the first school and hospital were established. It is also where the first book was written in Serbian language. Studenica, as the cradle of the Serbian medicine, produced - and through the following eight centuries, nurtured many educators and iconic figures of the Serbian cultural tradition. Among them was St. Sava, the first Serbian Archbishop, whose name is also borne by one of the highest Serbian civilian orders, which is awarded for extreme dedication and philanthropy in Serbia and worldwide. This here is an attempt to preserve the memory of the philanthropist Hannah Henkin Hardy, who was also personally awarded one of these Serbian orders. Hannah Henkin Hardy (1886-1944) was born in Worchester, U.K., completed a medical school in Melbourne, Australia, and arrived in Serbia in January 1915 together with the first Scottish Women's Hospitals. In Kragujevac, together with the Serbian physicians, and the 'Kolo srpskih sestara,' Mrs. Hardy established the League of Serbian Women to jointly fight the great typhus epidemic. She also founded the out-patients ambulances for the poor in Kragujevac, as well as the soup kitchens, and took part in various humanitarian activities. Mrs. Hardy and her husband Samuel Hardy, together with some other philanthropists, repaired the war-damaged Church of St. George in Topola. She joined the Serbian refugees in their escape from the invading enemy forces to the Adriatic Coast through the dangerous snowbound mountains of Albania and Montenegro. She remembered the suffering of the Serbian people and the dedicated humanitarian activities of the Serbian medical corps and foreign medical missions for the rest of her life. Mrs. and Mr. Hardy dedicated their lives to philanthropy and humanitarian work, helping small and suffering peoples and nations.

What's in a Name?: The Scottish Women's Hospitals in the First World War

The Scottish Women's Hospitals was not the only, or first, all-woman wartime medical organization, but it was the largest and most famous, working in France, Belgium, Serbia, Romania and Russia. It was founded, supported and run by feminists, notably Dr. Elsie Inglis, a leading suffragist. This article examines the writings of women who both served in the SWH and supported it and focuses on the debates surrounding its identity as a Scottish organization. It addresses issues of nationality, gender and social class, and considers the women's attitudes towards race, empire and war.

Deeds and Words in the Suffrage Military Hospital in Endell Street

Deeds <i>and</i> Words in the Suffrage Military Hospital in Endell Street

Scottish women's hospitals: The 90th anniversary of their work in Serbia

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.

Legitimacy and Bastardy in Scotland, 1694-1830

DR LEAH LENEMAN (1944-99) was a Research Fellow in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. A distin guished historian of Scotland's social experience during both the early modern and modern periods, Dr Leneman's range and versatility ex tended from pioneering work in eighteenth-century family history to the history of the campaign for women's suffrage, including its links with vege tarianism (a particular interest, spawning publications in vegetarian cook ery, such as The Amazing Avocado (1984), which are, perhaps, less familiar to her historical audience). Nor do these various topics exhaust Dr Leneman's range, for she also published a great deal on rural history, while her work on topics such as divorce, bastardy and marriage was securely grounded in legal history and an impressive command of court records. Her historical works included Living in Atholl: A Social History of the Estates, 1685-1785 (1986), Fit for Heroes'? Land Settlement in Scotland after World War One (1989), In the Service of Life: The Story of Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospitals (1994), Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Sep aration, 1684-1830 (1998), as well as several co-authored works with Rosa lind Mitchison on the history of sexuality in Scotland. Impressive as these different achievements were in themselves, they become even more formi dable when one learns that some of Dr Leneman's most significant pieces were completed during periods of remission from the cancer which eventu ally claimed her life. Dr Leneman arranged for the submission of this paper shortly before her death.

“Tradition and Transformation”: Recent Scholarship in Canadian Nursing History

She Answered Every Call: Life ofPublic Health Nurse, Mona Gordon Wilson (1894-1981). Douglas O. Baldwin. Charlottetown: Indigo Press, 1997. Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on Western Front. Eileen Crofton. East Lothian: Tuckwell Press, 1997 Military Nurses of Canada: Recollections of Canadian Military Nurses. Vol. 1 E.A. Landells, ed. Whiterock, BC: Co-Publishing, 1995. Bedside Matters: Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990. Kathryn McPherson. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996. Nobody Ever Wins a Wan World War I Diaries of Ella Mae Bongard, R.N. Eric Scott, ed. Ottawa: Janeric Enterprises, 1997. Jean I Gunn: Nursing Leader. Natalie Riegler. Markham: A.M.S./Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1997. Canadian nursing history is strongly rooted in conventional biography and descriptive narrative style. Consequently, careful recording of events and preservation of archival material has ensured a rich resource for future research in nursing's early development and its notable leaders (Gibbon and Mathewson). While recording contributions of exceptional nurses, this method necessarily limits analysis of role of wider community of nursing practitioners, preventing comprehensive understanding of nursing's history and development and its place in history of women's work. In 1991, historian Veronica Strong-Boag confidently predicted that the history of nurses is changing women's history and history of Canada; she noted a new interest in nurses and nursing among social historians as they began to question nursing's relationship to issues of gender, class and race (231). Yet historians Kathryn McPherson and Meryn Stuart have cautioned that not all nursing scholars welcome these new studies informed or motivated by political theory, and many prefer that nursing history mainly serve nursing's own interests (18). This conservative approach history has led to cautious consideration of nursing within broader context of Canadian social history. By comparison, in 1980s American scholarship took lead in examining work and culture of nursing. New interpretations by American historians Barbara Melosh in The Physician's Hand: Work, Culture and Conflict ill American Nursing (1982) and Susan Reverby in Ordered to Care: Dilemma of American Nursing, 1856-1945 (1987), directed American nursing scholarship towards labour history as a model for analysis. Until recently, Canadian nursing lacked a similar analytical framework for interpretation of its own historical development. history of nursing in Canada spans centuries; before religious nursing orders brought to continent by earliest European colonists were healing practices of Aboriginal peoples. Yet nursing as an organised and structured profession for Canadian women dates only from late nineteenth century, when Victorian enthusiasm for order and institution building gave rise to development of hospital system (Rosenberg). regularised training of Canadian nurses was initiated as educated, single, young women were recruited to prepare for certification as graduate nurses over a two- or three-year period while working on hospital wards. new century saw evolution of standardised, professional nursing in Canada, with much credit due to a generation of remarkable leaders, each of whom put a distinctive stamp on her own training programme. history of these inspired women has dominated wider development of Canadian nursing history into 1990s, but achievements of much larger force of working nurses who trained in schools, served in field of public health, and were a major component in development of a much-heralded Canadian hospital-care system, deserves equal scrutiny; Kathryn McPherson's Bedside Matters: Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 has finally given Canadian nursing history its own comprehensive analysis. …

The women of royaumont: a scottish women's hospital on the sestern front

The women of royaumont: a scottish women's hospital on the sestern front

Book Review: The Women of Royaumont. A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front

Book Review: The Women of Royaumont. A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

Four Scottish women's hospitals from their foundations to 1948.

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REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

British Journal of InebrietyVolume 17, Issue 4 p. 179-187 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. First published: April 1920 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1920.tb04035.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Review in this Article The Social Worker. By C. R. The Feeding OF Nations: A Study IN Applied Physiology. By Ernest H. Starling, C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Physiology AND National Needs. Edited by W. D. Halliburton, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Employment Psychology: The Application OF Scientific Methods TO THE Selection, Training, AND Grading OF Employees. By Henry C. Link Altitude AND Health. By F. F. Roget, Privat-Docent Professor in the University of Geneva. Rainfall, Reservoirs, AND Water-Supply. By Sir Alexander R. Binnie. Makers OF TO-Morrow. Edited by T. Vivian-Rees. Women's Wild Oats: Essays ON THE Re-FIXING OF Moral Standards. By C. Gasquoine Hartley. A HISTORY OF THE SCOTTISH WOMEN's HOSPITALS. Edited by Eva Pathways TO Christian Unity: A Free Church View. By Arthur Black, G. E. Darlaston, W. E. Orchard, William Paton, J. H. Squire, and Malcolm Spencer. Volume17, Issue4April 1920Pages 179-187 RelatedInformation

NOTES ON MALARIA AS SEEN IN MACEDONIA

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 2, Issue 5 p. 84-86 Original Article NOTES ON MALARIA AS SEEN IN MACEDONIA Mary C. De Garis M.D., B.S. (Melb.), Mary C. De Garis M.D., B.S. (Melb.) Late Chief Medical Officer Geelong Scottish Women's Hospital, Ostrava, MacedoniaSearch for more papers by this author Mary C. De Garis M.D., B.S. (Melb.), Mary C. De Garis M.D., B.S. (Melb.) Late Chief Medical Officer Geelong Scottish Women's Hospital, Ostrava, MacedoniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 August 1919 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1919.tb52322.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume2, Issue5August 1919Pages 84-86 RelatedInformation

X-Ray Appearances in Gas Gangrene

ArticlesX-Ray Appearances in Gas GangreneAgnes SavillAgnes SavillPhysician to London Skin Hospital and to Electrical and X-Ray Department, Scottish Women's Hospital, Royaumont, FranceSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:14 Feb 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/are.1916.0057SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail About Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 21, Issue 7December 1916Pages: 201-236 Copyright © 1916, The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineFebruary 14,2014 Metrics Download PDF

Some Notes on the X-Ray Department of the Scottish Women's Hospital, Royaumont, France

ArticlesSome Notes on the X-Ray Department of the Scottish Women's Hospital, Royaumont, FranceAgnes SavillAgnes SavillPhysician London Skin Hospital, Fitzroy SquareSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:18 Mar 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/are.1916.0097SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byVillers-Cotterêts2 July 2019Edith (1869-1938) and Florence (1870-1932) Stoney, two Irish sisters and their contribution to radiology during the World War I1 May 2013 | Journal of Medical Biography, Vol. 21, No. 2 Volume 20, Issue 12May 1916Pages: 393-428 Copyright © 1916, The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMarch 18,2014 Metrics Download PDF