Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>Heritage Detectives performances at 13.00 and 15.00.</p><p>Edinburgh Judo Club will give demonstrations in the Queen Street Gardens.</p><p>Guided tours and information leaflets.</p> OpeningTime1 12.00-16.00 OpeningDate1 24/9/2011 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 12033 Refreshments No Street The street address 52 Queen Street Postcode EH2 3NS Parking No DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Simpson House (1) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1838 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.95415,-3.203351; Description An account of the resource <p>Sir James Young Simpson lived at Simpson House from 1845 to 1870. He was a Scottish doctor and an important figure in the history of medicine. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for general medical use. Simpson House is now part of Cross Reach, the Social Care arm of the Church of Scotland, and offers services to those affected by substance misuse.</p>