His faith in chloroform--Confused public opinion on the subject--Personal attacks--Opposition on professional grounds--His reply--Opposition on moral grounds--His reply--Opposition on religious grounds--His reply--Her Majesty the Queen anaesthetised--Indiscrete supporters--The Edinburgh teaching of anaesthesia administration--The far-reaching effects of the successful introduction of anaesthesia. Professor Simpson firmly believed that he possessed now in chloroform an anaesthetic agent "more portable, more manageable and powerful, more agreeable to inhale, and less exciting" than ether, and one giving him "greater control and command over the superinduction of the anaesthetic state." Fortified by this belief, full of facts relating to the subject, and fired with zeal and enthusiasm, he was prepared to meet the opposition which from his knowledge of human nature he must have anticipated. So bravely and so emphatically did he champion the cause that he became identified with it in the public mind. The revelation of anaesthesia, the discovery of chloroform, and the application of anaesthetics to surgery as well as to midwifery were attributed to him by all classes of the community, not even excepting many of his own profession. Chloroform was spoken of as if ether had never existed; and chloroform and chloroforming displaced the terms anaesthetic and anaesthetising in ordinary talk--such unwieldy terms were naturally abandoned when there was the excuse that chloroform was universally considered the best substance of its class. Simpson made no attempt as Morton had done to patent his discovery under a fanciful name for his own pecuniary profit; but widely spread abroad every particle of knowledge concerning it that he possessed, so that every practitioner was forthwith enabled to avail himself thereof for the benefit of his patients.