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Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by J.G. Tunny.

Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by John Moffat.

Sir James Young Simpson invigilating an examination. Pen drawing by [E.A.G. S.], 1862.

Members of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University, gathered around a table. Lithograph by Schenck and McFarlane after L. Ghémar, ca.1850.

Sir James Young Simpson. Etching by A. W. Turnbull after J. Moffat.

Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph.

Sir James Young Simpson. Wood engraving by R. Taylor, 1870, after T.D Scott after J. Moffat.

Reproductive medicine.

Chair of midwifery : Testimonials in favour of James Y. Simpson, M.D...

Sir James Young Simpson and chloroform (1811-1870) / by H. Laing Gordon.

Early history of the anaesthetic discovery; or painless surgical operations. With letters to and from Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson and Dr. Henry Bennet. Boston versus Hartford / [Robert Hanham Collyer].

Account of a new anaesthetic agent, as a substitute for sulphuric ether in surgery and midwifery / [Sir James Young Simpson].

Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum libri quatuor. I. Logicus, de curationibus omnium ferme morborum corporis humani. ... II. De acutis et chronicis passionibus. ... III. Gynecia, de mulierum accidentibus, et curis eorundem. ... IIII. De physica scientia, experimentorum liber. ... / Per Heremannum Comitem a Neüenar integro candori nuper restitutus autor. Albvcasis Chirvrgicorvm omniũ primarij, lib. tres. I. De cauterio cum igne ... II. De sectione & perforatione ... III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis mẽbrorum.

Notes on the inhalation of sulphuric ether in the practice of midwifery / by J.Y. Simpson.

The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James Y. Simpson / edited by W.O. Priestley and Horatio R. Storer.

Treatment of inflammatory induration of the cervix uteri by deep cauterisation with potassa fusa / [report of a verbal contribution by James Y. Simpson to a meeting of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh].

Report of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, from 1844 to 1846 / by J.Y. Simpson.

Observations regarding the influence of galvanism upon the action of the uterus during labour / [James Y. Simpson].

[Notices of ancient Roman medicine-stamps, etc., found in Great Britain].

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The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James Y. Simpson / edited by W.O. Priestley and Horatio R. Storer.

Treatment of inflammatory induration of the cervix uteri by deep cauterisation with potassa fusa / [report of a verbal contribution by James Y. Simpson to a meeting of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh].

Report of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, from 1844 to 1846 / by J.Y. Simpson.

Observations regarding the influence of galvanism upon the action of the uterus during labour / [James Y. Simpson].

[Notices of ancient Roman medicine-stamps, etc., found in Great Britain].