James Young Simpson—the Complete Gynaecologist*

Gunn, Alistair L.

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1968.tb02074.x

Cited by 375 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Simpson administered chloroform to her intermittently over 25 min, 1 during which time she was safely delivered of a live female infant. The patient has been identified as Mrs Elizabeth Mackay 5 who was ‘the daughter of a Dr Carstairs of Edinburgh’ 6 . The grateful parents named their daughter ‘Anaesthesia’.…”

Section: Commentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

All Here Are Agog with the Chloroform

Newson

2000

Aust. N.Z. J. Surg.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Two letters written by James Y. Simpson are included among a bound collection of 25 of his pamphlets held in the Gordon Craig Collection of the Library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Both letters are written in pamphlets relating to Simpson's championing of chloroform. The first letter is written in a proof copy of a pamphlet titled Notice of a new anaesthetic agent as a substitute for Sulphuric ether in Surgery and Midwifery. This very rare pamphlet was posted to Dr Fleetwood Churchill, a Dublin obstetrician, on 13 November 1847, 9 days after the 'dining room experiment' in Simpson' s home, when the anaesthetic properties of chloroform were dramatically demonstrated. The second letter is written 10 months later and is also addressed to Dr Fleetwood Churchill. The content of both letters is discussed, as is also the rarity of the proof copies of the first printed document describing the use of chloroform.

show abstract

Section: Commentsmentioning

confidence: 99%