James Young Simpson

“I do not care what you call it, so long as it has the power of knocking people insensible to pain.”

“The man who has seen a woman in her first labour will never forget it.”

“Above all, let us not be ashamed to confess our ignorance.”

“Ever, in my daily round of duties, have I been impressed with the thought that I was but an instrument in the hands of a higher power.”

“The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.”