A hundred years of chloroform / [Douglas Guthrie].

1963

pages 235-242 : facsimiles, portrait

"An address delivered in the Upper Library Hall, University of Edinburgh, on 4 November 1947, at a reception to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of chloroform anaesthesia by Sir James Young Simpson"

Includes facsimiles of James Young Simpson's letters to his father- and mother-in-law informing them of his election to the Chair of Midwifery

The portrait of Simpson is on the plate facing p. [244]

Originally published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal