Simpson : the turbulent life of a medical pioneer /: the turbulent life of a medical pioneer. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Morrice McCrae.
• Other Names: McCrae, Morrice
• Contents: 1. The ambition to rise -- 2. A sense of exclusion -- 3. Revival -- 4. Professor of midwifery -- 5. Physician to the Queen -- 6. Experimental medicine: Galvanism and gynaecology -- 7. Library medicine: evolution of disease -- 8. Library medicine: on cholera -- 9. Ether -- 10. Chloroform -- 11. Fortune, family and fame -- 12. Homoeopathy, mesmerism and blackmail -- 13. Influence and power -- 14. Private practice, archaeology and Semmelweis -- 15. Acupressure and hospitalism -- 16. Triumph and decline -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: The last illness of Sir James Y. Simpson -- Appendix II: Publications by James Young Simpson.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Birlinn
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (530 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 618.20092; Obstetricians -- Scotland -- Biography; Medicine -- History -- 19th century; Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical; MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics; Medicine; Obstetricians; Scotland; Biographies; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857900623; 0857900625
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.