DR. ELSIE INGLIS

DR. ELSIE INGLIS

BY

LADY FRANCES BALFOUR

AUTHOR OF ‘THE LIFE OF LADY VICTORIA CAMPBELL’

‘LIFE AND LETTERS OF REV. JAMES MACGREGOR, D.D.’

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO

TO

SERBIA

AND THE

SCOTTISH WOMEN’S HOSPITALS

THAT SERVED AND LOVED

THEIR BRETHREN

1914–1917

‘In your patience possess ye your souls.’

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PREFACE

The story of Elsie Inglis needs little introduction.From first to last she was the woman nobly planned.She achieved what she did because she was readywhen the opportunity came. Consistently she hadlived her life, doing whatever her hand found to dowith all her might, and ever following the light.She had the spirit of her nation and of her race:the spirit of courageous adventure, the love ofliberty, and equal freedom for all people.

If this memoir represents her faithfully, it isbecause it has been written among her own familyand kindred. Every letter or story of her is partof a consistent whole. Transparently honest,warmly affectioned to all, the record could hardlyerr if, following exactly her footprints in the sandsof time, it presents a portrait of one of old Scotia’struest daughters. I owe manifold thanks to hersisters, her friends, her patients, above all, to herUnits, for the help they have given me in what has[viii]been a labour of love and growing respect. She,being dead, yet speaketh; and, while we thank ourGod for every remembrance of her, we hope thatthose who are her living memorials, the patients inthe Hospice, and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals,will not be forgotten by those who read and passon the pilgrim way.

The design for the book cover has been drawnby Dr. Inglis’ count

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