Dr. Elsie Inglis / by Lady Frances Balfour.

  • Balfour, Frances, Lady, 1858-1931.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: Dr. Elsie Inglis / by Lady Frances Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is interesting to read in these letters her descriptions of the work of Dr. Garrett Anderson, and then to read Dr. liOuisa Garrett Anderson’s speech on her mother at the jubilee of the hospital. ‘ I shall never forget her at Victoria Station on the day when the Women’s Hospital Corps was leaving England for France, early in September 1914. She was quite an old woman, her life’s work done, but the light of battle was in her eyes, and she said, “ Had I been twenty years younger I would have been taking you myself.” Just twenty-one years before the war broke down the last of the barriers against women’s work as doctors, Elsie Inglis entered the New Hospital for Women, to learn with that staff of v/omen doctors who had achieved so much under conditions so full of difficulties and discouragements. ^ New Hospital for Women, ^Euston Rd., 1892-3. ‘ My own dearest Papa,—Here we begin another long series of letters. The people in the carriage were very quiet, so I slept all right. Of course they shut up all the windows, so I opened all the ventilators, and I also opened the window two or three times. I had breakfast at once, and then a bath, and then came in for a big operation by Mrs. Boyd. Her husband came up to help her. Mrs. Scharlieb and Mrs. de la Cherois