. Discovery. Science. €8 DISCOVERY pation, Sinipiuii (K'ti-nnincd to CMilarge his experience by a visit to the chief seats of medical learning in Europe, and for this purpose he paid visits to Paris, Brussels, and Liege, taking London and Oxford on the way. On his return, in November 1X35. he was elected President of the Royal Medical Society in Edinburgh, and chose a subject for his address connected with obstetrics. He next accepted the post of house- surgeon in the Lying-in Hospital, and at the same time, owing to Professor Thomson's ill-health, gave the lectures on Pathology at the Univers
. Discovery. Science. €8 DISCOVERY pation, Sinipiuii (K'ti-nnincd to CMilarge his experience by a visit to the chief seats of medical learning in Europe, and for this purpose he paid visits to Paris, Brussels, and Liege, taking London and Oxford on the way. On his return, in November 1X35. he was elected President of the Royal Medical Society in Edinburgh, and chose a subject for his address connected with obstetrics. He next accepted the post of house- surgeon in the Lying-in Hospital, and at the same time, owing to Professor Thomson's ill-health, gave the lectures on Pathology at the University. In 1837 he obtained the post of Extra-academic Lecturer on Mid- wifery, and two vears later, on the retirement of the. SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON. Professor of Obstetrics in the Lfniversity, this ambitious youth of twenty-eight applied for the vacant chair. After a great fight and the expenditure of much more money on canvassing than he could afford, he was elected by one vote by the Town Council in whose gift the chair lay. He even became engaged to Miss Grindley, of Liverpool, and married her during this anxious period of trial, for he thought that his youth and single state might prejudice his chances of election. On the evening of the day of his success he wrote to his father-in-law: " I was this day elected Professor. My opponent had sixteen and I had seventeen votes. All the political influence of both the leading Whigs and Tories here was employed against me ; but never mind, I have got the chair in despite of them, Professors and all. Jessie's honej-moon and mine is to commence ; From that time forth his reputation as a lecturer and an authority on the diseases of women increased, and his means became more affluent, so that he was able gratefully to pay off his debts to his father-in- law and his own family. In his student days, the horrors of the operating- table were such as to defy description and exaggera- tion. On a sensitive youth such as S
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