The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

in him as a 4-year-old schoolboy. in
creased. Genius he had, but he did
not trust to it. The key to his success
was his determination to master and
finish whatever he undertook. He had
an intuitive knowledge of the human
soul, and an aptness in influencing
those around, more profitable in the
healing art than any drugs.
Disappointed at not gaining a country
surgeonship, he became assistant to
Dr. Thomson of Edinburgh, and later,
in 1896, put up his own doorplate in
Stockbridge, on the north side of Edin-
burg. Here he studied. wrote and at
tended the poor, and his stubborn te-
nacity of work soon brought him into
notice.
HIS FIRST BIG STEP.
The first big step in his upward ca
reer was his election to a professorsh1p
Professor Hamilton resigned in 1899,
and DR.. Simpson presumed to become
candidate. Did l not feel the best
man for the chair, I would not go in for
it, he said. The chief objections raised
were that he was too young and that he
was unmarried. He pleaded that years
would cure the former objection, and
the second he promptly remedied. he
wrote to his cousin, Jessie Grindlay,
lueu III LlNelp pun, w NOM ilC ldN loilS
admired, asking her to help his chances
and secure one vote in his favor by
marrying him at once. For my own
part" he said, L do not think l will
get this chair, but maybe another some
day; but l would have in you and your
presence and good care more wealth,
real wealth, and much more happiness
than in the longest purse that might be
within my grasp"
The contest over the election was a
severe one. The young doctor of IS
had only the reputation he had Won in
the four years he had been struggling
Edinburgh practitioner, but the testi-
monials which he collected from men
at home and foreign schools proved he
had made his mark and written himself
into fame. One vote he gained by rea-
son of his fathers trade. 4 councillor
who was of the honorable company of
Baxters' was the solicitor for smother
candidate. OF course none of you will
support young Simpson. He is only a
bakers son." said the maladroit can
vasser. "Dodd, man answered the
fioury city father, Just because he is
one III back him, and I'd be proud to
see son Of mine doing as Well" Whe-
Their it was turning benedict or being
the son Of g baker we know not but he
was elected by a majority If one.
His ability to lecture, the pithinesa
and eloquence of his speech filed his
classroom to overlooking. His increas-
ing renown attracted wealthy patients
to Edinburgh, and in 1647 he was made
one Of her majesty's physicians for
Scotland
The young professor then moved into
bigger. quarters and settled in 81 Queen
street. where the anesthetic properties
of chloroform were discovered. Wher
q student his heart, always Woman-like
in softneSs, had quailed when in the
natural course of his profession he was
q daily witness of suffering which
moved him with an intensity beyond
mere pity, and set him earnestly on
the search for the means 10 conquer
pain. Mesmerisrn at one time seemed
70 him to be q means to gain this OBJ
ject. It was in 1916 rFsat word came
across the Atlantic 0ffthe early trials
of sulphuric ether, and he set 10 FTork
with VIII to urge its use. Eie was the
first in either the OLD or new world to
dare TO apply il in ObStTetric practice.
NOT satisfied with the latter he for
months tried on hilnself various drugs,
ana at last obtained q bottle Of chloro-
form which had beef recommended 10
him by M Waldo bf LiVerpceA It's
anesthetic properties were undreamad
CT tin the Dhial cOncOcted for him was
taken by his own hand from the shelf
in DUNCAN & Flockharts, his chemists.
This bottle the professor a. first put
aside as a heavy unvolatile-like LIQUID,
but, other drugs failing, he sought 1t
out among some papers, tried it and
found If effectual.
CHANGE ANGU1sH4 INTO SLEEP
To find an anodyne which changed
anguish into sill the blessedness Of sleep
was not only what was wanted 1t re
quired doughty champion to fight its
way. for it was attacked vehemertly as
prejudicial to health, morals and re-
lgi0n.
4 great writer has said that the true
Gfscoverer is not the MAI who first says
G thing, but he who says it so often and
so persistently that at last he per
suades the world it is true. In this seusA
also my father won the victory and
became the apostle of anaesthesa.
So rapidly since that time has the use
of chloroform increased that the firm
which made the first little phial for my
father in 1S47 now makes weekly three
quarters of million doses And other