James Young Simpson, 1st baronet
1811–70
Physician. MD, Edinburgh, 1832. Professor of midwifery, Edinburgh University, from 1839. Introduced the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic in 1847. Created baronet, 1866.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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