Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870). H. Laing Gordon

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       CHAPTER I Birth and Childhood. 1811-1825

       CHAPTER II. Student Days. 1825-1830.

       CHAPTER III Further Studies. 1830-1835

       CHAPTER IV Early Practice and Professorship. 1835-1840

       CHAPTER V Professor and Physician. 1840-1847

       CHAPTER VI The Discovery of Anæsthetics. 1844-1847

       CHAPTER VII The Fight for Anæsthesia. 1847 onwards

       Table of the Mortality of Amputations of the Thigh.

       CHAPTER VIII Home Life—Controversies

       CHAPTER IX Archæology—Practice

       CHAPTER X PERSONAL—PROFESSORIAL—PROFESSIONAL

       For Injury.

       For Disease.

       CHAPTER XI FURTHER REFORMS—HONOURS

       CHAPTER XII FAILING HEALTH—DEATH

       PROMETHEUS.

       APPENDIX

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       II.

       INDEX

       A

       B

       C

       D

       E

       F

       G

       H

       I

       J

       K

       L

       M

       N

       O

       P

       Q

       R

       S

       T

       U

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       Y

PREFACE

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      I have endeavoured to condense the vast amount of matter which has been written concerning this Master of Medicine and his work into the form of a readable narrative, and to represent him in his social and intellectual environment in accordance with the object of this Series. The selections from his own writings illustrate as far as possible his versatility and many-sided character. I have chosen for quotation out of the numerous sketches and memoirs of him those written from undoubted knowledge of the man.

      I am indebted especially to Professor A. R. Simpson for kind advice, to Mr. Cuthbertson of the Edinburgh University Library for useful help, to Mr. C. Louis Taylor for valuable criticism, and to my wife for assistance in research and compilation. I have also to thank those friends who from time to time have favoured me with personal reminiscences of Sir James.

      The following are the chief works, in addition to Simpson’s own writings, from which my information has been drawn:—(1) “The Jubilee of Anæsthetic Midwifery”; (2) “Keiller and Credé”; (3) “History of the Chair of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh,” being addresses by Professor A. R. Simpson; (4) Miss Eve B. Simpson’s “Sir James Simpson”; and her (5) “Dogs of other Days;” (6) “Twenty Years and their Lesson; a Retrospect and Review” (Scots Observer, 1891); (7) Dr. Duns’s