Anaesthetic midwifery : report on its early history and progress / By J.Y. Simpson.

  • James Young Simpson
Date:
1848
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Credit: Anaesthetic midwifery : report on its early history and progress / By J.Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    (Ir^JLpT. Kw). t 4fo'E. VI. 8. ^ Anesthetic Midwifery ^^ Edinburgh, 1848. Title: Anaesthetic midwifery: | report j on its | early history and progress. | By | J. Y. Simpson, M.D., | Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh. | —I do think you might spare her, | And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy. j Measure for Measure. | Edinburgh: | Sutherland and Knox, George Street. | [short rule] | mdcccxlviii. Collation: 8°. 54 pp. Contents: p.[i] title; p.[2] 'From the Monthly Journal of Medical Science, Octo- ber 1848'; p[3] dedication to Charles J. Harabro; p.[4] blank; pp.[5]-47 text; p.[48] blank: pp.[49]-5i Appendix; p.[52] blank; pp.[53]-54 Index. Note: Scottish medical historians point with pride to the fact that anesthesia in midwifery originated north of the Tweed. Simpson had published his first paper on the use of ether in childbirth in March of 1847. and this represents his first general treatise on the subject in which the relative virtues of ether, chloro- form, and nitrous oxide are appraised.