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“If Sims were to move to New York…”

Sims’s recap of his motivations here is consistent with what did, in fact, happen—he moved to New York, and, as will be seen in later chapters, he performed many experimental surgeries on Irish immigrants, precisely because they did not come from the higher classes of society. Sims said all along that illness was the reason he left Alabama, and had been afraid of runaways from when he was a young boy (See “…left him with a fear…,” above).

“…early leaders of the Kappa Lambda cabal.”

“Some Account of a Secret Society in New York, Entitled the ‘Kappa Lambda,’ in a letter to Alexander Stevens, M.D., LL.D.,” p. 35. I found a copy of the letter at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland. It is also available online.

“…even the great Galileo…”

As will be seen later in The Anarcha Quest, E.R. Peaslee went on to become one of Sims’s colleagues at Woman’s Hospital. By all accounts, they hated each other.

Peaslee, E. R., & Medical School of Maine. (1851). An introductory address to the class in the Medical School of Maine. Concord, N.H: Press of McFarland & Jenks, p. 24.

“…Pliny, Cicero, and Rhazes the Persian…”

Peaslee, E. R., & Medical School of Maine. (1851). An introductory address to the class in the Medical School of Maine. Concord, N.H: Press of McFarland & Jenks, pp. 3-4.

“…Americans’ commercial and eclectic character.”

As will be seen in later chapters, Green will go on to become one of Sims’s colleagues at Woman’s Hospital.

Green, H., & New York Medical College (1850). (1851). The prospective progress of medicine in America: A valedictory address, delivered before the graduating class at the first annual commencement of the New-York Medical College, p. 7.

“…the harvest of the quackish chaff?”

Green, H., & New York Medical College (1850). (1851). The prospective progress of medicine in America: A valedictory address, delivered before the graduating class at the first annual commencement of the New-York Medical College, pp. 11-12.

“The light of truth…”

Green, H., & New York Medical College (1850). (1851). The prospective progress of medicine in America: A valedictory address, delivered before the graduating class at the first annual commencement of the New-York Medical College, p. 15.

“…for the sick poor…”

A plea for hospitals. (1851). New-York: Baker, Godwin, printers, p. 1.

“…Bellevue…New York Hospital…”

A plea for hospitals. (1851). New-York: Baker, Godwin, printers, p. 2.

“…London…”

I tallied the number of total beds listed here.

A plea for hospitals. (1851). New-York: Baker, Godwin, printers, pp. 6-7.

“…Paris…”

A plea for hospitals. (1851). New-York: Baker, Godwin, printers, p. 9.

“Death rates in New York…”

A plea for hospitals. (1851). New-York: Baker, Godwin, printers, p. 14.