The jubilee of anaesthetic midwifery : an inaugural address to the Glasgow Gynaecological and Obstetrical Society, on Tuesday 19th January, 1897 / by A.R. Simpson.

  • Simpson, Alexander Russell, Sir, 1835-1916.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The jubilee of anaesthetic midwifery : an inaugural address to the Glasgow Gynaecological and Obstetrical Society, on Tuesday 19th January, 1897 / by A.R. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE JUBILEE OF ANtESTHETIC MIDWIFERY. By a. R. SIMPSON, M.D., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh. Mr. President and Gentlemen—My first duty in meeting you to-night is to offer you my hearty thanks for the distinction you have conferred on me in electing me as your honorary president. It is a high honour to preside over a Society which, though young in years, has already made valuable contributions to the progress of obstetrics and gynaecology, and it affords me peculiar gratification to be brought into this pleasant relationship, alike with the younger workers in the field and with the older obstetricians whose friendship I had the happiness to gain during the years when I was a practitioner of medicine in Glasgow from 1865 to 1870. I am well disposed to believe that these former friendships have conspired with your generous appreciation of what work I may have done, or encouraged younger men to do, in leading you to pay me this welcome compliment. But whenever I am called to occupy the presidential chair of an obstetrical society, it always comes back to me that there's more in a name than Shakespeare's lovelorn Juliet was willing to allow; and I have fancied that some of you thought it fitting that the session that should see the jubilee of anaesthetic midwifery should have a Simpson for its honorary president. So, though the subject has been already treated very ably and appropriately by Dr. Ballantync in his inaugural address to our Edinburgh a2