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H. Laing (Henry Laing) Gordon
Best remembered for lively, accessible medical writing, this physician-author brought the history of anesthesia and the practical concerns of family health to a wide general readership. His books mix professional knowledge with a plainspoken style that still feels direct today.
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Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine
by H. Laing (Henry Laing) Gordon
About the author
Henry Laing Gordon was a physician as well as a writer. A biographical record from the S2A3 Database of Southern African Science says he was the son of James Gordon and Mary Laurie, and that he earned his MB and CM degrees at Edinburgh in 1889.
He wrote at least two widely cataloged books under the name H. Laing Gordon: Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870), a medical biography first published in the late 1890s, and The Modern Mother: A Guide to Girlhood, Motherhood, and Infancy, which later appeared in a New York edition in 1909. Those titles show the range of his interests, from the story of a major medical pioneer to practical guidance on women’s and family health.
The same S2A3 entry notes that by the time The Modern Mother appeared in a later edition, Gordon had qualified as an MD, and that he was living in Musina, South Africa, in 1911. Reliable portrait images were not clearly available from the sources I could confirm, so no author photo is included here.