Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet: Quick Facts


Facts

Born June 7, 1811 • Scotland
Died May 6, 1870 (aged 58) • London • England
Subjects Of Study anesthetic • chloroform • ethyl ether

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Walter Channing
American physician
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
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Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
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Crawford Williamson Long
American physician
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Hua Tuo
Chinese physician and surgeon
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Rebecca Lee Dorsey
American physician
Cleveland, Emeline Horton
Emeline Horton Cleveland
American physician
Virginia Apgar.
Virginia Apgar
American physician
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.
Patrick Steptoe
British gynecologist
Ether anesthesia
William Thomas Green Morton
American surgeon
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Soranus Of Ephesus
Greek physician
anesthesia
Carl Koller
American surgeon
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
William Cullen
William Cullen
Scottish physician and professor
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Sir Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquarian
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Sir James Mackenzie
Scottish physician
Brown, John
John Brown
British physician