Simpson JY. Anæsthetic midwifery : report on its early history and progress, 1848.

Catalog Record: Simpson JY. Anæsthetic midwifery : report on its early history and progress, 1848.

Title: Anaesthetic midwifery : report on its early history and progress / by J. Y. Simpson.

AccessKey: adhy

Author: Simpson, James Young, Sir, 1811-1870.

WLM Call Number: WO 450 S613 1848 RB

Accession No.: Copy 1, RB8815 ; Copy 2, RB9424

Publisher: Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox, 1848.

Physical Descrip: 54 p. ; 23 cm

Language: eng

Provenance: Inscribed on title page of copy 2, “Excuse the dirtiness – this is the only copy left. J.S.”

Subject: Midwifery.
Subject: Analgesia, Obstetrical.
Subject: Anesthesia – history – Great Britain.
Subject: Obstetrics.
Subject: Anesthesia, Obstetrical.

General Notes: Copy 2, accession number RB9424, is bound with 7 other works (4th of 8), and shelved at WO 207 S613 1848 RB.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics October 22, 2009.

General Notes: Begins with a section on the history of the use of anesthesia during labor and then compares ether, chloroform, and nitrous oxide. Cases are referred to throughout the work.

General Notes: Reprinted in 1849 in the U.S. as a part of a book by Dr. Simpson: Anaesthesia, or the employment of chloroform and ether in surgery, midwifery, etc. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849.

General Notes: “From the monthly Journal of Medical Science, October 184).”–Title page verso.

General Notes: It is believed that the inscription initialed “J.S.” was made by John Snow.

General Notes: In clamshell.

Note Bib: Footnotes and index.