Doctor James Young Simpson

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James Young Simpson

Living place: Scotland

Birthday: 7-6-1811

Global rank: #70151

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Who is Doctor James Young Simpson?
Remembered best to introduce the use of chloroform as anesthesia during medical procedures, this nineteenth-century obstetrician first administered chloroform to a midwife named Jane Carstairs.
He was a longtime friend of Scottish physicist David Brewster.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He began studying medicine at the age of fourteen and obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh at the age of twenty.

Family life info

He and his six siblings were born to David Simpson and Mary the charioteer.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Doctor James Young Simpson?
He and chemist Humphry Davy were the first to experiment with the medical use of anesthetics (chloroform and nitrous oxide, respectively).

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When was Doctor James Young Simpson born?
James Young Simpson was born in 7-6-1811, death year is , at the age of 213.
Where is Doctor James Young Simpson's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
James Young Simpson was born in . is a Doctor, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. James Young Simpson's global rank is 70151 and whose rank is 155 in list of famous Doctor.
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Events in 1811 and 7-6

Birthday James Young Simpson (7-6) in history

  • Day 7-6 year 1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, a treaty dividing the "New World" between the two countries.
  • Day 7-6 year 1654: "Sun King" Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
  • Day 7-6 year 1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing the Declaration of Independence.
  • Day 7-6 year 1892: Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
  • Day 7-6 year 1929: Vatican City became a sovereign state.
  • Day 7-6 year 1948: President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
  • Day 7-6 year 1967: Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
  • Day 7-6 year 2003: Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.
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