Women As Army Surgeons - Being History of Women s Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux Endell

This 1920 account records Flora Murray's efforts during the First World War to operate the first military hospitals staffed by women.

List of contents

Preface; Part I. The Women's Hospital Corps in Paris and Wimereux: 1. Organisation of the Women's Hospital Corps; 2. Arrival in Paris; 3. The hospital in the Hotel Claridge is opened; 4. First days in Paris; 5. A visit to Braisne, and an inspection; 6. The hospital and its visitors; 7. Les défenseurs de notre patrie; 8. The unit expands; 9. The hospital at Wimereux under the R.A.M.C. is opened; 10. Closure of the hospital in the Hotel Claridge; 11. The corps is offered a hospital in London; Part II. The Women's Hospital Corps in London: 1. Organisation of the military hospital, Endell Street; 2. First days of the military hospital, Endell Street; 3. Medical and surgical work; 4. The visitors - the entertainments - the library; 5. The women orderlies; 6. Those who made the wheels go round; 7. The position of women under the War Office; 8. Closure of the military hospital, Endell Street.

Summary

At the outbreak of the First World War, Flora Murray (1869–1923) and her fellow suffragists laid down their banners and sought to aid the Allied war effort. Murray's 1920 account records her efforts to operate military hospitals staffed by women in Paris and London during the war.

Product details

• Authors: Flora Murray, Murray Flora
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9781108069854
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06985-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine; Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine