| Description Of Item | The notes start with 'Why is Parturition more difficult in the human?'. The content is the same as SJY/1/1/4/6 up to p83 in that volume, 'Causes of Malpresentations'. The volume then includes notes on anaesthesia: moral and medical objections, composition of anaesthetics, why chloroform etc. Also at the rear of the volume are lists of questions on parturition dated December 1842 to April 1843. Annotation on front flyleaf 'Belongs to James Young Simpson, Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh, 22 Albany Street (crossed out), 52 Queen Street'. Dated from lists of questions. |