Simpson, Homoeopathy, 1853 (inscribed by author)

Homoeopathy: Its Tenets and Tendencies, Theoretical, Theological, and Therapeutical. By James Y. Simpson, M.D., F.R.S.E., Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh; and Physician-Accoucheur to the Queen of Scotland. President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and of the Obstetric Society; Lately President of the Royal College of Physicians; Formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, and of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh; Foreign Member of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of France; Member of the Society of Surgery of Paris; and of Various Medical Societies in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Ghent, Etc. Third Edition. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. MDCCCLIII. 
 
Octavo in original green cloth, ruled in blind, with gold text on spine. Ill-defined stain and wrinkling of cloth on front board. Corners bumped. Mild additional wear. Yellowing of end papers. Inscribed on half title “For Review with JYSs Kind Regards.” Binding beginning to crack between a few signatures, but still holding. Slightly cocked. 
 
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Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870). See Heirs 1764: “Simpson, the leading obstetrician of his time and a member of the faculty at the University of Edinburgh, introduced the use of chloroform as an anesthetic after experimenting with ether and finding that it had some undesired side effects.”