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 SIMPSON SINAI 61 as very celebrated as a practitioner. Among works are : " Homoeopathy " (3d ed., Ed- burgh, 1853 ; Philadelphia, 1854) ; " Obstet- c Memoirs and Contributions," including his ritings on anaesthesia (2 vols., Edinburgh d Philadelphia, 1855-'6) ; "Acupressure" (1864); and essays on ancient rock sculptur- g'ects. In 1871 appeared new editions and '.ections of his writings under the titles Selected Obstetrical Works," " Anaesthesia Hospitalism," and " Clinical Lectures on e Diseases of Women;" and in 1872, "Ar- eeological Essays." He was created a Imro- t in 1866. See " Memoir," by J. Duns, D. D. inburgh, 1873). SIMPSON, Mathew, an American clergyman, born in Ohio, June 10, 1810. He graduated at Alleghany college, Meadville, Pa., in 1832, and received the degree of M. D. in 1833, but in the same year entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1837 he was elected professor of natural sciences in Alle- hany college, and two years later president Indiana Asbury university, at Greencastle, d. In 1848 he was appointed editor of the Western Christian Advocate," Cincinnati, " in 1852 was elected bishop. He has been dally active in the promotion of educa- >nal and missionary enterprises. During the vil war he was employed on important com- issions, and delivered many addresses in sup- rt of the Union. In 1863-'4 he made an tended tour, studying the missionary status wants of his church in Syria, European .rkey, Switzerland, Germany, and Scandina- a. He has been three times a member of neral conference, and a fraternal delegate to the British Wesleyan conference and to vari- ous ecclesiastical bodies. In 1875 he was ap- pointed to visit again the mission conferences in Europe. His present residence (1876) is Philadelphia. SIMPSON, Thomas, an English mathematician, rn in Market-Bosworth, Leicestershire, Aug. 1710, died there, May 14, 1761. He was a eaver, and while young married a widow 50 ars of age, having two children, both older himself ; but the family lived in harmony, d Simpson employed his evenings in study, ecially of mathematics, and in keeping a 1. In 1733 he went to Derby, and in 35 or 1736 to London, where he soon estab- ed himself as a teacher of mathematics, while employing his leisure hours-in researches into the higher branches of science. In 1743 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the royal military academy at Woolwich, a post which he filled until the beginning of 1761, when with impaired mental faculties and dis- ordered health he retired to his native town. In 1746 he was elected a fellow of the royal society. He published works on fluxions, the laws of chance, annuities and reversions, alge- bra, geometry, trigonometry, logarithms, &c. ; but his most valuable publication was a volume of "Miscellaneous Tracts" (1754), consisting of four papers on pure mathematics and four on physical astronomy. SDIROCK, Karl, a German author, born in Bonn, Aug. 28, 1802. He qualified himself at Bonn and Berlin for the judicial service, in which he was employed from 1823 to 1830, when he was removed on account of his poem on the July revolution in France. In 1850 he was appointed professor of ancient German literature at Bonn. He became famous by his translations of the Nibelungen (1827; latest ed., 1874) and many other early German and Scandinavian poems, including the Edda (1851 ; 4th ed., 1871), and a modernized German ver- sion of Hartmann von der Aue's Der arme Heinrich (2d enlarged ed., 1875). One of his most celebrated original poems is Wieland der Schmied (1835; 3d ed., 1851). In 1867 ap- peared his translation of Shakespeare's poems, and among his other works are : Die Quellen des Shakespeare in Novellen, Mdrchen und Sage (1831 ; new ed., 1872)'; Das malerische und romantische Rheinland (4th ed., 1865); Handbuch der deutschen MytJiologie (new ed., 1869); and Faust (new ed., 1873). SIMS, James Marion, an American surgeon, born in Lancaster district, S. 0., Jan. 25, 1813. He graduated at the South Carolina college in 1832, and studied medicine in Charleston and at the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. In 1836 he settled at Montgomery, Ala., and soon became widely known as a skilful opera- tor in general surgery. About 1845 his at- tention was directed to the treatment of vesi- co-vaginal fistula, hitherto deemed incurable, and he established for the diseases peculiar to women a private hospital, which he supported for four years at his own expense. A pro- tracted series of experiments were crowned with success by the substitution of sutures of silver wire for silken and other sutures, and he afterward extended the use of metal- lic sutures into every department of general surgery. In 1853 he removed to New York, where through his efforts a temporary and afterward a permanent woman's hospital was established under his charge. In 1861 and 1864 Dr. Sims visited Europe, and in 1870 he organized in Paris the Anglo-American ambu- lance corps. He has published "Silver Su- tures in Surgery" (8vo, New York, 1858) and " Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery" (London and New York, 1866 ; translated into French and German). SINAI, a group of mountains in Arabia Pe- trsea, in the southern portion of the peninsula of the same name, which projects between the two forks of the Ked sea, the gulf of Suez sep- arating it from Egypt on the west, and the gulf of Akabah from Arabia on the east. The pen- insula of Sinai is triangular, about 140 m. in length from N. to S., and nearly the same in breadth at its widest portion. The northern portion is an arid and desert plain, with sand hills and mountains of small elevation; S. of
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