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“…her own odor.”
See “…a slave woman named Anarcha…,” above.
“…the building’s caretaker…”
See “…its janitor and his wife…,” above.
“…the endless ruckus…”
“Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard’s Departure from the Medical College of Virginia: Incompatible Science or Incompatible Social Views in pre–Civil War Southern United States,” Joseph C. Watson and Stephen V. Ho, World Neurosurgery, Vol. 75, No. 5/6, 2011, p. 752.
“…for a number of months…”
See “They gave her chloroform…” and “…Charles Bell Gibson…,” above. Anarcha’s Woman’s Hospital case record does not indicate how many experiments Gibson performed on her, or how long she remained in Richmond, but it’s doubtful he would have made only a single effort. The case record is held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.
“…the large chemical auditorium…”
Sanger, W. T. (1973). Medical College of Virginia before 1925, and University College of Medicine 1893-1913. Richmond: Medical College of Virginia Foundation, p. 298.
“They pushed her into…”
“Catalogue of the Medical Department of Hampden Sydney College, Richmond, Virginia, Session 1851-52, and Announcement of Session 1852-53,” Richmond: Colin and Nowlan, 1852, p. 11.
