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@BylinesScotland I know you mentioned this was something you ran from FB and Twitter, but please don't forget Dr Elizabeth Ross from Tain, Ross-Shire.

She graduated in medicine, from Glasgow uni in 1901.
After working as a local GP, she left for Iran in 1907.

She died in 1917 in Serbia, of typhus, where she was working as a doctor.

For more information, please see:

rossandcromartyheritage.org/ho

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Ross and Cromarty HeritageDr Elizabeth Ross ⋆ Ross and Cromarty HeritageElizabeth Ness MacBean Ross was born in Tain in 1878. She studied medicine at Glasgow University, graduating in 1901. For several years she was the local doctor on Colonsay and Oronsay and in 1907 left to go to Isfahan province in Persia, which today is a province of Iran. She worked among the Bakhtiari tribesmen in the Zagros Mountains, with long periods out of contact with fellow Europeans. The photo shows her in Bakhtiari dress. During this period she also wrote a book, “A Lady Doctor in Bakhtiari Land”. She worked her way home from Persia as a ship’s doctor on the SS Nigaristan, studied tropical medicine in London, went to Japan on the SS Glenlogan as the first female doctor on a liner. Elizabeth died of typhus in 1915 while working as a military doctor in Serbia. She was buried at Kragujevatz in Serbia, where her dedication and courage are still greatly honoured. Why not visit the Ross and Cromarty website to read more about this amazing woman from Tain.
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