| Women in History |
 
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| Inglis, Elsie Maud Inglis graduated from the School of Medicine for Women in Edinburgh in 1892. She worked at a general hospital in London, where she began campaigning for suffrage and for women's medical care. Concern for women's medical care lead her to open a maternity hospital in Edinburgh in 1904. Two years later she founded the Scottish Women's Suffragette Federation. Her concerns extended beyond women, however. When the First World War broke out, the army and the Red Cross would not accept doctors who were women. Inglis circumvented those rules. She found private funding, which allowed her to equip mobile units in France and Serbia. In Serbia she founded three hospitals--hospitals run by women. She was even taken prisoner, then released in 1916. Cancer lead to her early death.  
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