BBC News na srpskom
·Jul 2026
From Scotland to Kragujevac: Elizabeth Ross, the Doctor Who Defied Convention
Elizabeth Ross, born in London in 1878 and raised in northern Scotland, became one of the pioneering women doctors of her era. After studying medicine at the University of Glasgow and working in London, she served for more than five years as a doctor in Persia, gaining experience in infectious diseases and medicine under difficult conditions. She later became one of the first officially appointed female ship surgeons on a commercial vessel. During World War I, Ross volunteered for service in Serbia and treated typhus patients in Kragujevac amid catastrophic hospital conditions. She contracted the disease and died there on her 37th birthday, February 14, becoming one of 22 members of British medical missions who died of typhus in Serbia. Her life later inspired Serbian writer Ana Atanasković's novel "Krik"; Ross was buried in Kragujevac.