Answer to the religious objections advanced against the employment of anaesthetic agents in midwifery and surgery / By J.Y. Simpson.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Answer to the religious objections advanced against the employment of anaesthetic agents in midwifery and surgery / By J.Y. Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    VI. 7- Answer TO Relicious Okjections Ediiihing, Dec. 1847. Title: Answer | to | the religions objections | advanced against I the employment of anaesthetic agents | in midwifery and surgery. | By j J. Y Simpson, M.I^., F.R.S.I^., | Professor of Midwifery in tiie Lhii\ersity of Edinburgli, and Physician- | Accouchem- to Her Majesty in Scotland, j [Tags of Scripture] I Edinburgh: | Sutherland and Knox, 58, Princes Street. | London: Samuel Iligliley, 32, Fleet Street. | [brief rule] | MDCCCXEVU. Collation: 8°. 23 pp. Contents: p.[i] lille; p.[2] 'Murray and Gibb. PriiUcrs, Ediiilnirgh.'; pp.[3l-23 text; p.[24] blank. Note: This, the original edition, is very rare, the second edition of iS.|8 being more common. .Sborlly alter the pidiHcation of his Rcinariis an llic .siipcrindnc- tion of anersthcsio, 18.J7, Simpson pnbHsIied this paper in answer to soine criti- cism by his 'prolcssional brethren in Scotland.' Laing Gordon writes: The same kind of bigotry had met the introduction of \accin.itioii. and Simpson him- self remembered how many ])coplc had opposed the emancipalion of the negroes on the gronnd that they were the lineal descendants of Ham. of w hcmi it was .said 'a .servant of servants shall he be inito his brclhrcn.' In this famous pam- phlet he fought his cnctnics with their own weapons by appealing with con- summate skill to Scripture lor authority for the practice, sweeping (he ground from imder his oppoiicnts feet In releicncc to and studv of the original He- brew text.