What is recorded here
This brass commemorative plaque records: In 1847 in a pharmacy on this site Duncan Flockhart & Co made the chloroform used by Sir James Young Simpson in the historic experiments on the relief of pain. This plaque was erected on the occasion of the Third World Congress of the International Association for the Study of Pain held in Edinburgh 1981.
James Young Simpson was a pioneering Scottish obstetrician who first used chloroform as an anaesthetic in 1847, significantly advancing pain relief in medicine.
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