Anaesthesia, hospitalism, hermaphroditism, and a proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases / Ed. by Sir W.G. Simpson, bart.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Anaesthesia, hospitalism, hermaphroditism, and a proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases / Ed. by Sir W.G. Simpson, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. It would have been presumptuous in me, not being a medical man, to attempt to edit this volume of my father's works, had it not been evident that a careful selection and arrangement of material was nearly all that was required of me. The Papers on Anaesthesia contain most of my father's writings on the subject, those papers and parts of papers only being omitted which would have been repetitions of others which appear in the volume. Many of the articles were published in his Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions, edited in 1855-6 by Drs. Priestley and Storer. Others have been written since. I have tried to give them in a logical rather than in a chronological se- quence, putting, when necessary, at the head of each the date of its original production. Although a consecutive work, written in later years on the subject by my father, would have given more prominence to some points and less to others than these papers do, yet it is hoped that they will be found at least to touch upon most of the topics that would have come under discussion in a more complete treatise on the subject.