Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir of Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart In some instances, notes of no value in themselves have had a place assigned to them in the narrative, because they help to indicate Sir J ames's relations to men or circumstances that had important bearings on his character and work. My own training and studies enable me in some degree to understand and appreciate Sir J ames's work as a physician and man of science, but I have of pur pose avoided details in this department. They would have been out of place in a biography intended for general reading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.