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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. He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans and helped to popularise its use in medicine.
Jul 23, 2017 · Simpson was the first to coin the term local anesthesia. After Simpson began using chloroform as a safer and more effective anesthetic than ether during the late 1840s, many criticized its use. Individuals objected to the use of chloroform in obstetrics for medical, moral, and religious reasons.
Apr 2, 2020 · This year is the 150th anniversary of James Young Simpson's death in 1870. As well as being responsible for the introduction of general anaesthesia into obstetric practice, he made other important contributions to obstetrics and also to surgery as well as in the control of hospital infection.
- Ellis Harold
- 2020
Sir James Young Simpson did not discover chloroform and its anesthetic properties, as many mistakenly believe; however, he did have an important role in the introduction of chloroform anesthesia into the fields of midwifery, obstetrics, and surgery.
- Robert A. Kyle, Marc A. Shampo
- 1997
Simpson practiced hypnotism and then ether inhalation to relieve labour pains before introducing chloroform in November 1847. Experiments and observations helped him recognise the advantages of pain relief in labour and for operative procedures.
S25 When James Young Simpson introduced anesthesia to obstetric practice in 1847, he expected to receive accla- mations similar to those given to W. T. G. Morton for his successful demonstration of ether anesthesia in surgery.
On January 19, 1847, Scottish obstetrician, Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870) made his first use of ether anesthesia to ease labor pain. This is a plaster cast of the head of the infant delivered that day. Due to the mother’s deformed lower spine and pelvis, the birth canal was very narrow.
