James Young Simpson
1811 – 1870
69 works on record
Works

Acupressure: A New Method of Arresting Surgical Haemorrhage and of Accelerating the Healing of ...

Anaesthesia, hospitalism, hermaphroditism and a proposal to stamp out small-pox other contagious ...

Contributions to the pathology and treatment of diseases of the uterus

Postscript to Dr. Simpson's memorial on the propriety of continuing the Chair of General Pathology

On the alleged infecundity of females born co-twins with males

Pathological observations on the diseases of the placenta

Proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases

Cases of excision of the cervix uteri for carcinomatous disease

Notes on the inhalation of sulphuric ether in the practice of midwifery

Report of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, from 1844 to 1846

Memoir on the spontaneous expulsion and artificial extraction of the placenta before the child in placental presentations

On the duration of labour as a cause of mortality and danger to the mother and infant; &c

On the diagnosis and treatment of retroversion of the unimpregnated uterus

Acupressure

Clinical lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and infants, during the session 1845-6

Conversazione of the Lothians Medical Association

On solutions of gun-cotton, gutta percha, and caoutchouc, as dressings for wounds, etc

Was the Roman army provided with medical officers?

Case of delivery, without operative aid, through a pelvis extremely deformed by malacosteon

On the detection and treatment of intra-uterine polypi

On the nature of the membrane occasionally expelled in dysmenorrhœa

Remarks on the conduct and duties of young physicians

Obstetrical statistics, &c

Some remarks on the value and necessity of the numerical or statistical method of inquiry as applied to various questions in operative surgery

History of modern anæsthetics

Case of amputation of the neck of the womb, followed by pregnancy

The attitude and positions, natural and preternatural, of the fœtus in utero, acts of the reflex or excito-motory system

Ovariotomy

Antiquarian notices of leprosy and leper hospitals in Scotland and England

Hospitalism

Note on the history of carbolic acid and its compounds in surgery prior to 1867

Some remarks on the value and necessity to the numerical or statistical method of inquiry as applied to various questions in operative surgery

On the expulsion and extraction of the placenta before the child in placental presentations

Hermaphroditism ..

The modern advancement of practical medicine and surgery

Clinical lectures on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children
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Was the Roman Army provided with any medical officers?

On acupressure in amputations

Memoir on the sex of the child as a cause of difficulty and danger in human parturition

Correspondence between Dr. Simpson, Dr. Ramsbotham and Dr. Lee in relation to uterine hæmorrhage from placental presentation

Homoeopathy

Some remarks on the treatment of unavoidable hæmorrhage by extraction of the placenta before the child

Antiquarian notices of syphilis in Scotland in the 15th & 16th centuries

Remarks on the superinduction of anaesthesia in natural and morbid parturition

Anaesthetic midwifery

Notes on the anaesthetic effects of chloride of hydrocarbon, nitrate of ethyle, benzin, aldehyde, and bisulphuret of carbon

The attitude and position natural and preternatural of the foetus in utero, acts of the reflex or excito-motory system
The obstetric memoirs and contributions
Physicians and physic
History of modern anaesthetics
De l'acupressure
Clinical lectures on diseases of women
Organic materia medica and therapeutics
Selected obstetrical and gynaecological works of Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart
Archaic sculpturings of cups, circles, &c. upon stones and rocks in Scotland, England, & other countries
List of the preparations, casts, drawings, instruments, obstetric machinery, &c. contained in Dr. J.Y. Simpson's museum and employed by him in the illustration of his lectures on midwifery ...
Head presentations with the forehead originally directed or towards the pubes
Hospitalism: Its effects on the results of surgical operations, etc
Some notes on the analogy between puerperal and surgical fever
Pathological observation on puerperal arterial obstruction and inflammation
The Works of Sir James Y. Simpson
Remarks on the alleged fatal case of chloroform-inhalation
A reply to Dr. Jacob Bigelow's second letter
Speech of...on being presented with the freedom of the City of Edinburgh, October 26, 1869
Answer to the religious objections advanced against the employment of anaesthetic agents in midwifery and surgery
Notes on some ancient Greek medical vases for containing lykion
Anaesthesia in surgery
Ovariotomy; is it - or is it not - an operation justifiable upon the common principles of surgery? Are - or are not - capital operations in surgery justifiable to the extent generally practised?