Simpson, the obstetrician: a biography
"James Young Simpson, the great experimental physician and gynaecologist of the mid-nineteenth century ... deserves to be commenorated throughout the world as the discoverer of the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic ... [Pain] was fisrt relieved by the use of ether - the discovery of the American, Thomas Morton. Simpson was among the first in Europe to interest himself in that discovery."--Book jacket
Print Book, English, 1972
Gollancz, London, 1972