“If it is our mission
to alleviate suffering
as well as to preserve life
there should be no conscientious restraint…”
—Gael Turnbull, “James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission…”
from The Hand that Sees: Poems for the quincentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
James Young Simpson (1811–1870) pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth
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