Category: Biographies
The state of the healing art at Simpson's birth--Birthplace--Family superstitions--His father's bakery--His mother's Huguenot descent--Commencement of schooldays--Natural and antiquarian features of Bathgate district--The village hand-loom weavers as antiquarians and naturalis...
The emotional part of Sir James Simpson's nature found some small expression in versifying both, as we have seen, in early years and in later days. We know that he was a close s...
6. CHAPTER VIHis early sympathy for suffering--Surgical methods before the discovery of anaesthetics--His mental struggle caused by the sickening sights of the operating theatre--His researc...
10. CHAPTER XProfessor A. R. Simpson has said that his uncle Sir James Simpson's genius showed itself in his power of seeing things, in his power of adapting means to ends, and in his power...
5. CHAPTER VSuccess as a lecturer--Increased practice--Generosity--Fashionable patients--Memoir on Leprosy--Controversy concerning the Pathology Chair--Address to the Graduates, 1842--Squab...
7. CHAPTER VIIHis faith in chloroform--Confused public opinion on the subject--Personal attacks--Opposition on professional grounds--His reply--Opposition on moral grounds--His reply--Opposit...
8. CHAPTER VIIIGreat as was Simpson's contemporary fame, the chief part of it had its origin in his indescribable personal power over his fellows, and in his inexhaustible energy. When to thes...
2. CHAPTER II.Visit to Edinburgh--Sent to the University--Takes the Arts classes--Gains a bursary--Influence of MacArthur and Reid--Robert Knox the anatomist--The Burke and Hare murders--Supe...
3. CHAPTER IIIApplies for a village appointment--Disappointment--Brother's help to further studies--Dispensary assistant--Obtains University M.D., 1832--Thesis--Assistant to the Professor of...
1. CHAPTER IThe state of the healing art at Simpson's birth--Birthplace--Family superstitions--His father's bakery--His mother's Huguenot descent--Commencement of schooldays--Natural and an...
11. CHAPTER XIProfessor Simpson took a warm interest in medical politics, and made himself heard as a member of the Senatus of the University. That body was not renowned for any spirit of har...
4. CHAPTER IVPresident of Royal Medical Society--Personal appearance--Practice among the poor--Corresponds with Miss Grindlay--Lecturer on obstetrics--Resignation of Professor Hamilton--Appl...
9. CHAPTER IXHis versatility--The Lycium of the Muses--The Catstane--Was the Roman Army provided with medical officers?--Weems--His lack of business method--Fees and no fees--Generosity ofte...