He is regarded as the " Father of modern #Anesthetics ".
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He is regarded as the " Father of modern #Anesthetics ".
Born 7 Jun 1811; died 6 May 1870 at age 58.
(1st baronet) #Scottish #inventor and #obstertrician.
He employed ether for the first time in #Britain, and #chloroform ("perchloride of formyle") for the first time as an anesthetic in an #operation (1847).
He was not the first to use chloroform but it was his persistent roversy about the morality of whether #women should use such anesthetics in #childbirth.
#Victoria's leadership broke people free from #superstition and fear. Simpson was a natural inventor, always eager to #experiment in new directions - the fight against puerperal #fever, the invention of new types of #forceps and the combating of #cholera.
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