Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Medical Women in Romania (1916-1917). Contemporary Recollections
Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Medical Women in Romania (1916-1917). Contemporary Recollections

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents, on the basis of several contemporary recollections, the activity of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Romania, in the period October 1916 – January 1917, and in southern Bessarabia, for most of the year 1917. In the hospitals and dressing stations organized in Medgidia, Bulbul Mic, Hârşova, Brăila, Galaţi and Reni, the medical staff provided, under the effective command of Dr. Elsie Inglis, a veritable Scottish Florence Nightingale, a much valued healthcare to the allied soldiers, wounded in WWI. The Scottish women treated almost every kind of wound and disease and underwent the same hardships and dangers as the Romanians, during a very difficult period in our national existence. As virtually nothing is written in Romanian on the activity of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, this paper aims to be not only a tribute to the brave Scottish sanitary staff, but also a contribution to our own history, as seen by several foreign witnesses.

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