22 JUNE 1934, Page 20

[To the Editor of TIM SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Twice within the year

have I come across error regarding Sir James Young Simpson, who was the first doctor to use chloroform in obstetrics. An Irish doctor, actually in a special paper on anaesthetics, wrote of Sir John Simpson. And now a curious mistake occurs in Mr. E. M. Forster's article, in your issue of June 15th. Paisley has no claim to Simpson. He was born at Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, the son of a baker there.—I am, Sir, &c., R. 0. ADAMSON. 15 Grosvenor Crescent, Glasgow, 117.2.