Teaching
He was a talented teacher, through both the spoken and the printed word. The first edition of his book Simpson’s Forensic Medicine was published in 1947 and in 1958 won the Swiney Prize of the Royal Society of Arts for being the best work on medical jurisprudence to appear in the preceding ten years.
To one of his nurses, at a postmortem of a woman who had died as a result of a botched illegal abortion, he had said that "he saw at least two young girls a week who died as a result of septic abortions", and that he was adamant that abortion should be legalized.
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Famous quotes containing the word teaching:
“The most important part of teaching = to teach what it is to know.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”
—Thucydides (c. 460–400 B.C.)
“This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman never proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)