Jessie Handyside Gellatly was one of the UK's first university-qualified female doctors. She was one of 16 female doctors who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, and served as the medical officer of health (MOH) for Cambridgeshire for most of her life.

Agnes Marshall Cowan MRCOG was a Scottish physician who was one of the first fully qualified female physicians in the UK, and a medical missionary in Manchuria during the Manchurian plague. She oversaw medical issues in the "Devil's Porridge" explosive factory at Gretna serving the demand for explosives during the First World War.