Anesthesia . Euf ame Macalyane, was charged with seeking the assistanceof Agnes Sampson for the relief of pain at the time of the birth of hertwo sons, and was accordingly burned alive on the Castle Hill of Edin-burgh ; ^ and this view, which stood for nothing kind, merciful, or hu-mane, persisted even to the middle of the nineteenth century. Simpsonsuse of chloroform was denounced from the pulpit as impious and contraryto Holy Writ; and Biblical texts were numerously cited, the generaldeclaration being that to use chloroform was to avoid one part of theprimeval curse on women. As in the time
Anesthesia . Euf ame Macalyane, was charged with seeking the assistanceof Agnes Sampson for the relief of pain at the time of the birth of hertwo sons, and was accordingly burned alive on the Castle Hill of Edin-burgh ; ^ and this view, which stood for nothing kind, merciful, or hu-mane, persisted even to the middle of the nineteenth century. Simpsonsuse of chloroform was denounced from the pulpit as impious and contraryto Holy Writ; and Biblical texts were numerously cited, the generaldeclaration being that to use chloroform was to avoid one part of theprimeval curse on women. As in the time of witchcraft, so strong wasthe power of the church, so universal the belief in the guilt of all women,that, notwithstanding the fact that Simpson wrote pamphlet after pam- Mon. J. Med. Sci., Sept., 1847; Ednb. Medico-CMr. Soc, Nov. 11, 1848. J. Anaesthesia, 1849, 93, 145, 182, 193, 203. Chloroform of thedensity was used by Simpson in 1847. Dalyells Darker Superstitions of Scotland, 130, Fig. 9.—Sir James Y. Simpson. Towhose genius and benevolence theworld owes the blessings derived fromthe use of chloroform for the relief ofsuffering. 22 ANESTHESIA phlet to defend the blessing he had introduced, he seemed about to beovercome, when he seized a new weapon, which was, according to White,^probably the most absurd by which a great cause was ever won: Myopponents forg-et, he said, the twenty-first verse of the second chapterof Genesis; it is the record of the first surgical operation ever per-formed, and that text proves thatthe Maker of the universe, beforeHe took the rib from Adams sidefor the creation of Eve, caused adeep sleep to fall upon Adam. Weare told that this was a stunningblow, but that it did not entirelykill the sectarian opposition, for theleaders of the resistance hadstrength left to maintain that thedeep sleep of Adam took place be-fore the introduction of pain intothe world—in a state of , Thomas Chalmers, a newchampion, n
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