In addition, her decision to dedicate her life to medicine was probably influenced by her uncles who were successful doctors: James led a missionary hospital in India, and Alex was a professor of anatomy at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Inglis offered her hospital team to the British War Office, but was rejected by the sentence: "My dear lady, go home and sit still."

They arrived in Thessaloniki on 1 January 1915, and the next day boarded a train for Kragujevac, which was the headquarters of the Serbian army and military medical team.

Her hearing was damaged by long-lasting high temperatures, and she lost her hair, so covered her head wearing a hat or a scarf for a long time.

[citation needed] When she was healed, on the insistence of Admiral Ernest Troubridge, she left Serbia and returned to Scotland in order to recover completely.

Finding that there were opportunities to return to Serbia, she interrupted her stay in Corsica, in order to try to organise the accommodation of Serbian orphans in the Friends home in the High Savai.

A few days later, they received an invitation from the head of the Serbian Relielf Fund in Thessaloniki to come to their hospital in Sorović (today the Greek town of Amyntaio, near the Greek-Macedonian border) to help care for the injured civilian population during the bombing of Bitola and the surrounding area.

Isabel soon left Brod and returned to Thessaloniki to work in the Serbian hospital of Crown Prince Alexander, while MacPhail remained behind.

MacPhail was firmly convinced that her medical help was far more needed in the villages, so she managed to persuade Dr Sondermayer to let her remain in Bitola.

At that time, MacPhail was visited by her friend, Dr Edward W. Ryan, whom she showed the poor living conditions in the nearby villages.

In the Macedonian mountains, conditions were harsh and cold, but MacPhail with her mobile outpatient unit visited the surrounding villages regularly and did her job.

In the meantime, her family and friends in Scotland collected warm clothes and footwear which MacPhail shared with impoverished women and children.

Clothing, footwear and other supplies to help Serbia, were collected by her family, friends and patients, were packaged and sent separately via the Red Cross.

In Toulon she met Darinka Grujic, who had been taking care of Serbian orphans and refugees in France since the beginning of the war, which she wanted to return to Serbia.

The pavilion was located on a hill, at the edge of a forest, so it was ideal for a treatment consisting of fresh air and sun, which, in addition to good food and rest, was at that time the only medicine for tuberculosis.

[13] As the number of patients at Topcider had been steadily increasing, MacPhail came to the idea of finding a place on the seashore where she could accommodate children with tuberculous.

The conclusion was that in spite of the small number of beds and a limited fund owned by the Anglo-Yugoslav hospital, she managed to fulfill all the tasks.

She was thrilled with the position of the city itself and its surroundings and bought the land, which was officially conveyed to her on 1 August 1933, and immediately began preparations for the construction of the hospital.

According to Ketrin's idea and with the help of an engineer of the Hygienic Institute in Belgrade, an old Russian architect made plans for a three-winged building with a central courtyard and a long terrace along the north and west wing so that children can be in the sun all day.

The principal treatment of bone and joint tuberculosis at the time when antibiotics and antituberculotics did not exist consisted of increasing the general resistance of patients with hygienic and dietary regimen, fresh air therapy, heliotherapy (exposure to the sun during the day, during the winter exposure to artificial light), immobilisation and various surgical procedures.

School-age children attended daily classes that corresponded to their age and curriculum, after which they would receive a certificate at the end of the school year.

The English-Yugoslav Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis[6] was officially opened on 23 September 1934, under the auspices of Her Majesty Queen Maria Karađorđević.

The treatment consisted of fresh air, sun exposure, good food, rest, massage, immobilisation with plaster and surgery if there was a need for it.

[15] In a report published in the Daily Record in March 1945 which also includes a photograph of her, she described the local conditions-noting that of a thousand beds, 920 were bare, Hospital equipment such as x-ray machines had been shattered or thrown into the Danube.

In July, MacPhail began negotiations over the reopening of a hospital in Sremska Kamenica with the help of the Child Protection Fund from London.

After nationalisation, the hospital continued to exist as a state sanatorium for bone tuberculosis and was overseen by the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Medical Faculty in Belgrade, led by Professor Svetislav Stojanovic.

[6] In 1954, on the 20th anniversary of the founding of her hospital, she became an honorary citizen of Sremska Kamenica and made the lifelong president of the Karlovac Red Cross.

'[18] MacPhail was included in the series along with fellow doctors Elsie Inglis, Isobel Galloway Hutton, Evelina Haverfield and Elizabeth Ross and Captain Flora Sandes.

Her biography, Ever Yours Sincerely: The Life and Work of Dr Katherine S. MacPhail (Cambridge, 2007), was translated from Serbian to English by Muriel Heppell, from Želimir Dj.

Mikić's original version in Serbian, Uvek vaša: život i delo dr Ketrin Makfejl (Novi Sad, 1998).