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West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, 2013. Built in 1877, this seated bronze figure of James Young Simpson sits in academic robes on a stone plinth, and was designed by William Brodie RSA (1815-1881) and cast by Masefield and Co. Bronze-founders of London.
Simpson was born in Bathgate, West Lothian of humble origins, and rose to become Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University in 1840, where he pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic. The plinth is inscribed, ‘Sir James Young Simpson, Baronet, MD, DCL, Born 1811. Died 1870. Pioneer of Anaesthesia’.
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James Young Simpson June 7, 1811 – May 6, 1870
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