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According to Wikipedia, Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet, , was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans and helped to popularise its use in medicine.

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REMARKS ON THE ALLEGED CASE OF DEATH FROM THE ACTION OF CHLOROFORM. (1848) (103)
ON A NEW ANÆSTHETIC AGENT, MORE EFFICIENT THAN SULPHURIC ETHER. (1847) (67)
Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women (1872) (38)
Answer to the Religious Objections Advanced against the Employment of Anæsthetic Agents in Midwifery and Surgery (1848) (23)
Account of a New Anæsthetic Agent, as a Substitute for Sulphuric Ether, in Surgery and Midwifery (1848) (21)
The Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of (1856) (15)
Notes on the Employment of the Inhalation of Sulphuric Ether in the Practice of Midwifery (1847) (14)
Sir James Young Simpson (1870) (12)
Remarks on a Case of Sudden Death in Ovariotomy While the Patient was under the Influence of Chloroform (1870) (12)
Carbolic Acid and Its Compounds in Surgery (1867) (11)
Observations on Binary Fission in the Life-History of Ciliata. (10)
Anæsthesia, or the Employment of Chloroform and Ether in Surgery, Midwifery, Etc. (1849) (9)
Discovery of a New Anæesthetic Agent More Efficient Than Sulphuric Æther (1847) (8)
SOME PROPOSITIONS ON HOSPITALISM. (1869) (7)
Account of a New Anæsthetic Agent, as a Substitute for Sulphuric Ether in Surgery and Midwifery (1848) (7)
A Lecture on the Siamese and Other Viable United Twins* (1869) (6)
LOCAL ANESTHESIA;: NOTES ON ITS ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION BY CHLOROFORM ETC. IN THE LOWER ANIMALS, AND IN MAN (1848) (6)
Our Existing System of Hospitalism and Its Effects (1869) (5)
Effects of Hospitalism upon the Mortality of Limb-Amputations, etc (1869) (4)
Contributions to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Uterus (1844) (4)
On the Relative Danger to Life from Limb-Amputations, in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and in Country Practice (1869) (3)
ON OVARIOTOMY AND OVARIAN TAPPING. (1857) (3)
Anæsthetic and Other Therapeutical Effects of the Inhalation of Chloroform (1847) (3)
Report on the Early History and Progress of Anæsthetic Midwifery (1848) (3)
Man and the Attainment of Immortality (3)
Cases of excision of the cervix uteri for carcinomatous disease (1846) (2)
Discovery of a New Anaeesthetic Agent More Efficient Than Sulphuric AEther. (2)
CASES OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHLOROFORM IN MIDWIFERY; WITH REMARKS. (1847) (2)
Notes on Some Ancient Greek Medical Vases for Containing Lykion; and on the Modern Use of the Same Drug in India (1853) (2)
The new Siberia (2)
Some Notes on the Analogy between Puerperal Fever and Surgical Fever (1850) (2)
Hospitalism: Its Influence upon Limb-Amputations in the London Hospitals, &c (1869) (2)
Etherization in Surgery: Part I.—Its Effects; Objections to It, &c. (1847) (2)
Cases illustrative of the spontaneous amputation of the limbs of the fœtus in utero, with remarks (1836) (2)
Our Existing System of Hospitalism and Its Effects (1869) (2)
Etherization in Surgery: Part II.—Proper Mode of Investigating Its Effects; Statistical Propositions and Results; &c. (1847) (1)
THE LATE DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM IN EDINBURGH. (1855) (1)
On some ancient Greek Medical Vases for containing Lykion; &c., and on the modern use of the same drug in India (1852) (1)
Professor Simpson's Letter on Acupressure (1866) (1)
DR. SIMPSON ON OPERATIVE MIDWIFERY. (1849) (1)
Medicine: Its Young Practitioners and Future Advances (1868) (1)
The Works of Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart., M. D., D. C. L. Volume II (1872) (1)
Acupressure (1865) (1)
Etherization in Surgery: Part III.—Does Etherization Increase or Decrease the Mortality Attendant upon Surgical Operations? (1848) (1)
Some notes on the state sale monopoly and subsequent prohibition of vodka in Russia (1)
Original Papers.: PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT IN PLACENTAL PRESENTATIONS (1847) (1)
Acupressure—A New Method of Arresting Surgical Hœmorrhage (1860) (1)
The Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of James Y. Simpson, M.D., F.R.S.E., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, &c. (1857) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1852) (0)
Remarks on the Death of Sir James Young Simpson (0)
Notices of Ancient Roman Medicine-Stamps, &c., Found in Great Britain (1851) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1852) (0)
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF JAMES SIMPSON, JANUARY 10TH 1854. (0)
NOTES ON THE STATISTICS OF PLACENTA PRÆVIA. EXPOSITION OF THE ERRORS OF STATEMENT OF DR. LEE. (1847) (0)
Chloroform, as a New Anæsthetic Agent (1848) (0)
On the Construction and Salubrity of Maternity Hospitals (0)
DR. SIMPSON IN REPLY TO DR. DUFFIN. (1851) (0)
A Lecture on the Siamese and Other Viable United Twins* (1869) (0)
Notices of Ancient Roman Medicine-Stamps, &c., Found in Great Britain (1851) (0)
Our Existing System of Hospitalism and Its Effects (1869) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice: No. XIV.-On the Excision of Large Pedunculated Uterine Polypi; and Its Advantages over Deligation. (0)
Mr. Syme and Acupressure (1865) (0)
The Saburov memoirs or Bismarck & Russia : being fresh light on the League of the Three Emperors 1881 (0)
SOME PROPOSITIONS ON HOSPITALISM.: (IN ANSWER TO T. HOLMES, ESQ.) (1869) (0)
Letter from Professor J. Y. Simpson, M.D. (1865) (0)
Notes on the Anæsthetic Effects of Chloride of Hydrocarbon, Nitrate of Ethyle, Benzin, Aldehyde, and Bisulphuret of Carbon (1848) (0)
THE ACTION OF RUSSIA IN REGARD TO ALCOHOL. (0)
On the Nature of the Membrane Occasionally Expelled in Dysmenorrhœa (1846) (0)
On Acupressure (1860) (0)
STATEMENTS OF AN EDINBURGH PRACTITIONER REGARDING THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND THE LATE MEDICAL REFORM CONFERENCE (1854) (0)
Clinical Lectures on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children (1845) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1852) (0)
SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON AND HOSPITALS FOR WOMEN. (1870) (0)
DR. SIMPSON'S REPLY TO " ISAAC IRONS." (1851) (0)
ART. XXXI.—Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women (1873) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1855) (0)
COPY OF A LETTER FROM PROFESSOR SIMPSON TO DR. TYLER SMITH. (1847) (0)
Anæsthetic Inhalation (1870) (0)
The Attitude and Positions, Natural and Preternatural, of the Fœtus in Utero, Acts of the Reflex or Excito-Motory System (1849) (0)
On the Detection and Treatment of Intra-Uterine Polypi (1850) (0)
ON THE ALLEGED ANTICIPATION OF ACUPRESSURE BY JOHN DE VIGO. (1867) (0)
New Sponge-Tents Dipped in Carbolic Acid, Tied, Dried, and Turned (0)
The Attitude and Positions, Natural and Preternatural, of the Foetus in Utero, Acts of the Reflex or Excito-Motory System (1849) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1852) (0)
Original Papers.: PLACENTAL PRESENTATIONS. — EXPOSITION OF DR. LEE'S LAST ERRORS OF STATEMENT (0)
Observations Regarding the Influence of Galvanism upon the Action of the Uterus during Labour (1846) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1852) (0)
THE EDINBURGH MONTHLY JOURNAL AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS. (1850) (0)
Address to the Edinburgh Medical Graduates, August 1, 1868 (1868) (0)
History and Applications of Carbonic Acid as a Local Anæsthetic (1858) (0)
MR. SYME'S LECTURE AND LETTER ON ACU-PRESSURE. (1865) (0)
NOTES, IN ANSWER TO DR. LEE, (1847) (0)
On Intra-Uterine Goitre, or Bronchocele. (1855) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1853) (0)
Syphilisation (1865) (0)
THE INTRA-UTERINE SPRING PESSARY. (1866) (0)
DR. J. Y. SIMPSON AND MESMERISM. (1851) (0)
Acupressure-A New Mehtod of Arresting Surgical Hemorrhage (1860) (0)
On the Cephalotribe* (1867) (0)
ART.X.—Homcoopathy: its Tencts and Tendcnics Thcoretical, Thcological, and Therapcutical (1854) (0)
Inquiry Relative to the External Use of Oil in the Prevention and Treatment of Scrofula, Phthisis, etc. (1853) (0)
Did John de Vigo Describe Acupressure in the Sixteenth Century? (1867) (0)
General Observations on the Roman Medicine-Stamps Found in Great Britain (1851) (0)
CÆSARIAN SECTION AND OVARIOTOMY. DR. LEE AND DR. SIMPSON. (1851) (0)
The Attitude and Positions, Natural and Preternatural, of the Fœtus in Utero, Acts of the Reflex or Excito-Motory System (1849) (0)
Case of Delivery, without Operative Aid, through a Pelvis Extremely Deformed by Malacosteon; Child, at the Ninth Month of Utero-Gestation, Passing through an Oblong Aperture under 1 Inch in Its Narrow, and 2½ in Its Long Diameter (1847) (0)
ACUPRESSURE IN AMPUTATIONS, ETC. (LETTER FROM PROFESSOR SIMPSON.) (1864) (0)
The Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of James Y. Simpson, M.D., F.R.S.E., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, &c. (1857) (0)
The Alloa Case of Death under Chloroform (0)
DR. ROBERT LEE AND DR. SIMPSON. (1851) (0)
Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice (1853) (0)
Two Cases of Icthyosis Intra-Uterina (1844) (0)

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