Sir James Young Simpson
and
Chloroform
(1811-1870)
BY
H. Laing Gordon
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
MDCCCXCVII
Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, for Great Britain
and Longmans Green & Co. for the
United States of America
MASTERS OF MEDICINE
EDITED BY ERNEST HART, D.C.L
“HOMINES AD DEOS NULLA IN RE
PROPIUS ACCEDUNT QUAM
SALUTEM HOMINIBUS DANDO.”
CICERO.
| Title. | Author. |
| John Hunter | Stephen Paget |
| William Harvey | D’arcy Power |
| Sir James Simpson | H. Laing Gordon |
| Edward Jenner | Ernest Hart |
| Hermann Von Helmholtz | John G. McKendrick |
| William Stokes | Sir William Stokes |
| Claude Bernard | Michael Foster |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie | Timothy Holmes |
| Thomas Sydenham | J. F. Payne |
| Vesalius | C. Louis Taylor |
To
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER RUSSELL SIMPSON
“Him by the hand dear Nature took,
Dearest Nature, strong and kind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
Id.