“…Anarcha began her monthly bleeding…”

Anarcha’s Woman’s Hospital 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.

“He had attended duels…”

The Evening Star (Washington DC), February 10, 1883, first edition, p. 2.

“…attacked by a circus lion…”

The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), April 2, 1847, p. 2.

“…for easy castration.”

“Surgical Clinique of Richmond Medical College,” Alfred B. Tucker, The Stethoscope, Vol. 1, 1851, pp. 145-46.

“…mysterious bone growth…”

“Surgical Clinique of Richmond Medical College,” Alfred B. Tucker, The Stethoscope, Vol. 1, 1851, p. 144.

“…a growth in the gut…”

“Irreducible Ventral Omental Hernia,” William Buster, The Stethoscope, Vol. 2, 1852, p. 64.

“…an infinite number of glands and follicles…”

“An Essay on Inflammation of the Cervix Uteri,” Charles Bell Gibson, Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, May 1853, p. 102.

“…even hardened feces…”

“An Essay on Inflammation of the Cervix Uteri,” Charles Bell Gibson, Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, May 1853, p. 102.

“…the recent lecturer in Richmond…”

The Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, VA), April 28, 1854, p. 2.