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James Young Simpson

1811 - 1870

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Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) 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 in humans and helped to popularize its use in medicine. Simpson's intellectual interests ranged from archaeology to an almost taboo subject at the time: hermaphroditism. He was an early advocate of the use of midwives in the hospital environment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Young Simpson is the 486th most popular physician (down from 468th in 2019), the 2,913th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,654th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, James Young Simpson ranks 486 out of 726. Before him are Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Friedrich von Huene, Ernest Starling, Wilhelm His Sr., Kyusaku Ogino, and Gustav Fischer. After him are Rutherford Alcock, Richard Bright, Maryna Poroshenko, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Antonio Scarpa, and Łucja Frey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, James Young Simpson ranks 51. Before him are Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Giulia Grisi, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, William Robert Grove, and Carl Johan Thyselius. After him are Johann Dzierzon, Georg August Wallin, Mohammad Afzal Khan, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, François Delsarte, and Dimitrija Demeter. Among people deceased in 1870, James Young Simpson ranks 41. Before him are Arthur Saint-Léon, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Cesare Pugni, Alexei Lvov, and Majid bin Said of Zanzibar. After him are Imre Frivaldszky, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Moshoeshoe I, and Franz Josef Ruprecht.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Young Simpson ranks 2,914 out of 8,785. Before him are Naomie Harris (1976), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Arnold Bax (1883), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), John Michael Wright (1617), and Marianne North (1830). After him are John Shrapnel (1942), Rupert Brooke (1887), Ernest Renshaw (1861), Tom Finney (1922), Rutherford Alcock (1809), and Gary Stevens (1963).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, James Young Simpson ranks 42. Before him are James Braid (1795), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), William Bayliss (1860), William Stukeley (1687), William Turner (1510), and Ernest Starling (1866). After him are Rutherford Alcock (1809), Richard Bright (1789), William Hunter (1718), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Anthony Carlisle (1768), and John Crawfurd (1783).

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