Constance A C Ross

While still a medical student Constance A C Ross obtained a wartime assistant post at Knightswood Fever Hospital Glasgow, which prompted her interest in infections and influenced her whole subsequent career. After qualifying she returned to Knightswood as an assistant physician. She trained in investigative methods and obtained her MD with a study of sulfonamide treatment in lobar pneumonia. She was called up during the second world war, serving in the army from 1945 to 1947. Posted to Catterick Military Hospital she was …