Isabel Emslie Hutton
British doctor
Dr Isabel Galloway Emslie MD, Lady Hutton
CBE (11 September 1887 – 11 January 1960) was a Scottish physician who specialised in mental health and social work.
She served leading units in Dr Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the front line in World War I and won awards from the British, Serbian, Russian and French. Emslie married British military officer Lt General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton.
Early life and education
Isabel Galloway Emslie was born in Edinburgh in 1887. She was the eldest daughter of James Emslie, advocate and Deputy Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland. She was educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College, then enrolled at the University of Edinburgh, where she trained in the women's medical school, spending her hospital residence years at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1910, she graduated with a degree in medicine and in 1912 was awarded her MD degrees with a thesis titled "Wassermann sero-diagnosis of syphilis in 200 cases of insanity".
Career
While completing her thesis, Emslie worked as a pathologist at the Stirling District Asylum, then moved to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children before becoming the first woman to be appointed in charge of the women's medicine of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
In 1915, she joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals Organisation and served in France at the Domaine de Chanteloup, Sainte-Savine, near Troyes, then with the French Army’s Armee d'Orient in Salonika, distinguishing herself by leading the unit which accompanied the Serbian army during the First World War.
Following the closure of the Serbian hospital where she worked, Emslie took over Lady Muriel Paget's mission in Crimea.
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