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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RG76.S47S55 | Off-site |
Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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