MEN BEHIND CHLOROFORM
Perhaps no human being lias helped to alleviate the pain of. the -world more than Sir James Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. Did he rea.ly discover it ? In 'the little town of Bathgate, in Linlithgowshire, lived a baker and his familj , . The shop never paid— and seven sons and a daughter needed some keeping. Certainly, little was left for their schooling, but Jamie, the baby, must have his chance. Six big lads, -with their own and ambitions, work in the bakehouse, and think nothing of it, so that Jamie may be taught, fust by his mother, then by old lame Henderson, better known , as
Timmerleg ... # Later at the University and the hospital Jamie became a great, man. Chloroform was but one of his discoveries. Every cottage hospital .owes its being to him. He succeeded —but the people who gave the' new anaesthetic and cottage hospitals to suffering humanity Avcrc six lads in a country bakery and an old, lame dominie called. Timmcrlcg. Docs; it. matter that the world never knew their names —or that those who did know them counted them failures ?
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19430604.2.24.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 78, 4 June 1943, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
185MEN BEHIND CHLOROFORM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 78, 4 June 1943, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in