Elsie Inglis - The Woman with the Torch by Eva Shaw McLaren
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_Sunday, October 22nd._--Retreated from Medjidia.
_October 25th._--Arrived at Braila. Worked there till December 3rd. _December 3rd._--Retreated to Galatz, where very strenuous work awaited them. _January 4th._--Retreated to Reni. _August, 1917._--Left Reni, and rejoined the Serb division at Hadji Abdul. The work during the above period, from October 25th, 1916, to August, 1917, was done for the Russians and Roumanians. As soon as it was possible, Dr. Inglis joined the Serb division in the end of August, 1917. "Dr. Inglis was still working in Reni when the Russian Revolution broke out in March.[20] The spirit of unrest and indiscipline, which manifested itself among the troops, spread also to the hospitals, and a Russian doctor reported that in the other hospitals the patients had their own committees, which fixed the hours for meals and doctors' visits and made hospital discipline impossible. But there was no sign of this under Dr. Inglis's kindly but firm rule. Without relaxing disciplinary measures, she did all in her power to keep the patients happy and contented; and as the Russian Easter drew near, she bought four ikons to be put up in the wards, that the men might feel more at home. The result of this kindly thought was a charming Easter letter written by the patients-- |
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