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  1. May 2, 2024 · Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet was a Scottish obstetrician who was the first to use chloroform in obstetrics and the first in Britain to use ether. Simpson was professor of obstetrics at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained an M.D. in 1832. After news of the use of ether in surgery.

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  2. May 11, 2024 · Simpson was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans. Pen and ink drawing, artist unknown, c.1847. · OnView. Sir James Young Simpson and two friends, insensible after having tested chloroform on themselves.

  3. May 20, 2024 · Simpson forceps were originally designed by the Scottish obstetrician Sir James Young Simpson. Simpson-Braun forceps are a variation of the Simpson forceps and are characterized by their elongated cephalic curve, pelvic curve, English lock mechanism, and grooved handle.

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    May 23, 2024 · In 1847, Scottish obstetrician James Y. Simpson was the first to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in humans, provided by local pharmacist William Flockhart of Duncan, Flockhart and company, and helped to popularize the drug for use in medicine.

  5. May 16, 2024 · Along with James Young Simpson and other colleagues, he philosophised the value of chloroform in surgical practise, and having extracted the first tooth under general anaesthesia in 1847, Imlach became a leader in the field (and later a College president) having used chloroform for over 300 cases in the subsequent nine months.

  6. May 20, 2024 · Work to emulate James Blundell continued in Edinburgh. In 1845 the Edinburgh Journal described the successful transfusion of blood to a woman with severe uterine bleeding. Subsequent transfusions were successful with patients of Professor James Young Simpson, after whom the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh was named.

  7. May 12, 2024 · Sir James Young Simpson: 1850: Died 1870 106: William Brown: 1852: Resigned 1871; Died 1873 107: Dr. John Taylor: 1854: Died 1856 108: Mr. Benjamin Bell: 1854: Died 1883 109: Dr. Andrew Wood: 1857: Died 1881 110: Dr. James Dunsmure: 1857: Resigned 1886; Died 1886 111: Dr. James Donaldson Gillespie: 1858: Died 1891

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