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biography
pronunciation:
[inggls]
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| (1864–1917)
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| Surgeon and reformer, born in Naini Tal, NE India. One of the first women medical students at Edinburgh and Glasgow, she inaugurated the second medical school for women at Edinburgh (1892). Appalled at the lack of maternity facilities and the prejudice held against women doctors by their male colleagues, she founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh, completely staffed by women (1901). She also founded the Scottish Women's Suffragette Federation (1906), which sent two women ambulance units to France and Serbia in 1915. She set up three military hospitals in Serbia (1916), fell into Austrian hands, and was repatriated, but in 1917 returned to Russia with a voluntary corps, which was withdrawn after the revolution. |
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