Isabel Emslie Hutton -Pioneering Psychiatrist and Beyond Marriage and Civilian Life When Emslie married Major Thomas J Hutton on 16th August 1921 in St Cuthbert’s Parish Church Edinburgh, the only option available to a woman doctor was to become a General Practitioner. She wanted to continue in psychiatry but found the outlook to be ‘gloomier […]
Category: Women in Healthcare in Scotland 1870 – 1970
Women who have contributed to the health of Scotland
Isabel Emslie Hutton – Part II Service with the Scottish Womens Hospitals. (SWH) Introduction Though I am now so familiar with the work of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals that their accomplishments almost seem ‘normal’, nothing could be further from the truth. These women experienced enormous hardship, trauma and culture shock. Whether working-class cook, aristocratic ambulance […]
Rebecca Strong Part II Influences from St Thomas’s Hospital, London and the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley. Introduction Following on from my previous blog on Rebecca Strong, First Matron of Dundee Royal Infirmary and Glasgow Royal Infirmary, I became so fascinated by her story, I continue to research her life. A further visit to the London […]
Isabel Emslie Hutton (1887-1960) Introduction I recently met someone at a conference who shares an interest in Isabel Emslie. I was struck by the fact that in conversation, she invariably referred to her […]
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 […]