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“…died in October 1848.”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 248.
“…he began to correspond…”
Letter from Horatio Storer to Dr. Walsh, February 1, 1922.
Storer’s letters have been transcribed and are available at horatiostorer.net.
“…begun to be shunned…”
See “…quiet, secretive whisperings…,” above.
“…the treatment of disease…”
Sims’s attitude toward disease is surmised from the fact that he only rarely wrote about infectious disease of any kind, and tended to believe in quack water cures. He knew very little about infectious disease (and mistook a disease of infection for a mechanical problem that could be cured with a knife—see “The future would judge him…,” above), and left Alabama, in part, because he was afraid of the outbreaks of illness there and because he believed the Croton water of New York cured him (or this was another way in which he disguised his ambition).
“…a series of popular lectures…”
Nott, J.C. (1849). Two lectures on the connection between the Biblical and physical history of man: Delivered by invitation, from the chair of political economy, etc., of the Louisiana University, in December 1848.