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James Young Simpson

British obstetrician (1811–1870)

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Field of work
Obstetrics
Anesthesia
Archaeology

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Images by James Young Simpson

3 images from works
  • Early history of the anaesthetic discovery; or painless surgical operations. With letters to and from Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson and Dr. Henry Bennet. Boston versus Hartford / [Robert Hanham Collyer].
  • Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum libri quatuor. I. Logicus, de curationibus omnium ferme morborum corporis humani. ... II. De acutis et chronicis passionibus. ... III. Gynecia, de mulierum accidentibus, et curis eorundem. ... IIII. De physica scientia, experimentorum liber. ... / Per Heremannum Comitem a Neüenar integro candori nuper restitutus autor. Albvcasis Chirvrgicorvm omniũ primarij, lib. tres. I. De cauterio cum igne ... II. De sectione & perforatione ... III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis mẽbrorum.
  • Notes on the inhalation of sulphuric ether in the practice of midwifery / by J.Y. Simpson.

Images featuring James Young Simpson

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  • Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by J.G. Tunny.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by John Moffat.
  • Sir James Young Simpson invigilating an examination. Pen drawing by [E.A.G. S.], 1862.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by J.G. Tunny.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Etching by A. W. Turnbull after J. Moffat.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by J.G. Tunny.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Wood engraving by R. Taylor, 1870, after T.D Scott after J. Moffat.
  • Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph.
  • Sir James Young Simpson invigilating an examination. Pen drawing by [E.A.G. S.], 1862.
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Glasgow University Library
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh
Chloroform
Homeopathy
Anesthesia
Anesthesia in obstetrics
Scotland
Ether
Pregnancy
History, 19th Century