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“…invalid chair…”
“…depleted to $116.”
“…boarders in his home…”
“…dresses…public schools…”
“Dr. Valentine Mott…”
“…a curious case…”
“…failing to cure her for years…”
“…to act as a valve…”
“…New York Medical Times.”
“…to all of American medicine.”
“…cases of lacerated perineum…”
“…borrow his tools…”
“…word was coming of successful cures…”
“…a visit to Mott’s office.”
“The man’s impressive diploma…”
“…the opportunity afforded by disease.”
“…invalid chair…”
The time to take credit for his Invalid Chair will be when he publishes his book—Sims claims that the device is intended to ease the concerns of delicate women, but it’s more or less a trick to get them into an examination chair before they know what they’re doing.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 21-22.
“…depleted to $116.”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 267, 274.
“…boarders in his home…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 268.
“…dresses…public schools…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 275-76.
“Dr. Valentine Mott…”
Mott, V., Francis, J. W., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1849). An inaugural address: Delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine, February 7, 1849, frontispiece.
“…a curious case…”
Sims, J. M., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1858). Silver sutures in surgery. New York: S.S. & W. Wood, p. 63.
“…failing to cure her for years…”
“A Case of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, Resisting the Actual Cautery for more than Seven Years—Cured in Thirteen Days by the Author’s Process,” J. Marion Sims, New York Medical Times, Vol. 3, No. 8, May 1854, pp. 265-66.
“…to act as a valve…”
“A Case of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, Resisting the Actual Cautery for more than Seven Years—Cured in Thirteen Days by the Author’s Process,” J. Marion Sims, New York Medical Times, Vol. 3, No. 8, May 1854, p. 266.
“…New York Medical Times.”
“A Case of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, Resisting the Actual Cautery for more than Seven Years—Cured in Thirteen Days by the Author’s Process,” J. Marion Sims, New York Medical Times, Vol. 3, No. 8, May 1854, p. 265.
“…to all of American medicine.”
“A Case of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, Resisting the Actual Cautery for more than Seven Years—Cured in Thirteen Days by the Author’s Process,” J. Marion Sims, New York Medical Times, Vol. 3, No. 8, May 1854, p. 267.
“…cases of lacerated perineum…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 268.
“…borrow his tools…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 268.
“…word was coming of successful cures…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 269.
“…a visit to Mott’s office.”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 270.
“The man’s impressive diploma…”
I am assuming that Mott would have had his diploma on the wall. Mott’s diploma is held in the Special Collections department of the New York Public Library.
“…the opportunity afforded by disease.”
Mott, V., Francis, J. W., & New York Academy of Medicine. (1849). An inaugural address: Delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine, February 7, 1849, pp. 17, 19.
