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Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, FRSE FRCPE FSA Scot (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870), was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine.
Jun 3, 2024 · Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet (born June 7, 1811, Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, Scot.—died May 6, 1870, London) was a Scottish obstetrician who was the first to use chloroform in obstetrics and the first in Britain to use ether.
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Dec 7, 2018 · Sir James Young Simpson was an elder at St Columba’s Free Church (formerly called Free St John’s) in Edinburgh and ran a free medical dispensary for the poor at Carrubbers’ Close Mission on the Royal Mile. Below is his own testimony, reproduced with the kind permission of the Sovereign Grace Union. ‘A SCIENTIST’S TESTIMONY.
Sir James Young Simpson (1811-70), was born in Bathgate and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from Edinburgh in 1832. In 1840, when only 28, he was appointed Professor of Midwifery (obstetrics and gynaecology), and rapidly consolidated its position as a popular and essential part of medical education.
Sir James Young Simpson lived from 7 June 1811 to 6 May 1870. The first man ever to be knighted for his services to medicine, he is principally remembered for introducing anaesthesia to childbirth.
Sir James Young Simpson died on 6 May 1870. The entry in the statutory register of deaths for St Andrew, Edinburgh gives his age at death as 58 and place of death as 52 Queen Street,...
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Sir James Young Simpson (1811-70), was born in Bathgate and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from Edinburgh in 1832. In 1840, when only 28, he was appointed Professor of Midwifery (obstetrics and gynaecology), and rapidly consolidated its position as a popular and essential part of medical education.
