Sir James Young Simpson and chloroform, 1811-1870 / by H. Laing Gordon.

  • Gordon, H. Laing (Henry Laing)
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sir James Young Simpson and chloroform, 1811-1870 / by H. Laing Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAPTER II Student Days. 1825-1830- 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—Superiority of the extra-mural teachers of the day—Edinburgh an intellectual centre —University life—His mode of living asi student—Apprenticed to a chemist—Studies surgery under Liston—Regularly falls asleep in the obstetric class—Influence of his teachers—Verse writing— Description of the medical student of the day—Vacation work— Death of his father—Obtains qualification to practice at the age of miles from Bathgate, Simpson visited it only once as a schoolboy ; probably he walked all the way, for railroads were as yet unknown and it was not a long walk for a country-bred vigorous youth. He exercised his already formed habit of noting objects of interest during this great event in his boyhood, and in his journal there are copies of old inscriptions from tombs in the famous Greyfriars’ Churchyard to which he made his pilgrimage. eighteen. LTHOUGH Edinburgh was only eighteen ^7- c