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Simpson, the obstetrician: a biography;

Title: Simpson, the obstetrician: a biography; with a foreword by Ian Donald.
Author: Simpson, Myrtle.
Publication: London, Gollancz, 1972.

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Description

304, [7] pages illustrations, facsimile, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

"James Young Simpson, the great experimental physician and gynaecologist of the mid-nineteenth century ... deserves to be commenorated throughout the world as the discoverer of the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic ... [Pain] was fisrt relieved by the use of ether - the discovery of the American, Thomas Morton. Simpson was among the first in Europe to interest himself in that discovery."--Book jacket.

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Genre/Form

Biography
collective biographies.
History
Biographies
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [287]-298.

Contents

Foreword / Ian Donald -- Prologue -- 1. Bathgate, 1811 -- 2. Edinburgh, 1825 -- 3. The medical student -- 4. Midwifery -- 5. The young doctor, 1832-1840 -- 6. The young professor, 1840-1847 -- 7. Ether -- 8. Chloroform -- 9. Prime -- 10. Maturity -- 11. The veteran -- Epilogue.

ISBN

0575013680
9780575013681

LCCN

72304969

OCLC

ocm00489148
489148
SCSB-264034

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library