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David Waldie1813 - 1889
Monument to David Waldie, Linlithgow
©2011 Gazetteer for Scotland
Surgeon and medical scientist. Born in Linlithgow, Waldie is credited with being the first to recommend, and make practicable, the use of the anaesthetic chloroform, which had been pioneered by Sir James Young Simpson (1811-70).
He died in Calcutta (India).
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