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Simpson, Sir James Young
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Physician, born, the son of a baker, at Bathgate, Linlithgowshire; graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1832; was assistant to the professor of Pathology and one of the Presidents of the Royal Medical Society before his election to the chair of Midwifery in 1840; as an obstetrician his improvements and writings won him wide repute, which became European on his discovery of chloroform in 1847; was one of the Queen's physicians, and was created a baronet in 1866; published "Obstetric Memoirs," "Archæological Essays," &c. (1811-1870).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Simpson, Sir James Young'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/simpson-sir-james-young.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Simpson, Sir James Young'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/simpson-sir-james-young.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.