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Simpson : The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer by Maurice McCrae is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the story of one of the great events in the history of medicine. In 1847, challenging the firmly held convictions of the medical profession of the time, James Young Simpson demonstrated for the first time that a woman could be safely relieved of the pains of difficult and traumatic labour by the administration of a general anaesthetic. He later added to his fame when he introduced a new and better anaesthetic, chloroform, which soon became the most popular general anaesthetic for use in

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Author

Maurice McCrae

Publisher

Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857900623

Category

biography

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-25