Grace Ross Cadell Introduction When Professor Robert Christison, Professor of Medical Juruisprudence and Toxicologist at Edinburgh University, stated his oppostion to women studying medicine on the grounds that their admission would diminish the quality of the medical field, because they were less intelligent, and too fragile to endure the rigorous course work, he did not […]
Biography Helen Marshall Rough is a bit of an enigma, though what we do know of her is interesting. I first began to research her as a result of a request from Sue John, Director of Operations, Resources and Enterprise at Glasgow Women’s Library. On a walk through Glasgow Necropolis, Sue spotted Helen Rough’s gravestone […]
Where Vale of Leven Hospital now stands in Alexandria Dunbartonshire, once stood 18th century Tullichewan Castle. The building was requisitioned in the Second World War for use by the Women’s Royal Naval Service (W.R.N.S) and among those posted there was a young Rosemary Ince. Born in Dowanhill, Glasgow on 19th October 1924, Rosemary Margaret […]
Introduction On the 31 May this year a friend and I were privileged to attend the opening of a new and unique museum collection sited in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. It features the work of the great and the good such as Lord Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery and Sir William Macewan, […]
This first post is an introduction rather than the in-depth story of any one individual, but I hope that these cameos will inspire you to read about the lives of some of these women and many others in the coming months. Those of whom I write were nurses, doctors, scientists, and women without medical training […]