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“…bad cervices.”
“An Essay on Inflammation of the Cervix Uteri,” Charles Bell Gibson, Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, May 1853, p. 105.
“…thrown from a carriage…”
“An Essay on Inflammation of the Cervix Uteri,” Charles Bell Gibson, Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, May 1853, p. 107.
“…chloroform was the best agent…”
Gibson was a member of the committee.
“Report of the Committee of the Medical Society of Virginia, on the Utility and Safety of Anaesthetic Agents,” The Stethoscope, Vol. 1, April 1851, p. 197.
“…he wasn’t any whiter…”
“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. 750.
“…who her father was but he was white.”
Not only did Sims’s biography first describe Anarcha as “mulatto,” the 1870 census report for Virginia described her likewise: forty years old, female, and “M” for “mulatto.” As will be seen, Anarcha and her husband were both of mixed race, on a plantation where that was an exception. SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 171.
“…the way he spoke…”
“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.L
“…Edward Brown…”
“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. 751.
“…when his mother died he added her name…”
“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. 751.
Ott, I., & Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia,. (1896). Dr. Brown-Sequard. Philadelphia: Publisher not identified, p. 2. Originally printed in the Medical Bulletin.
“…he shook his head and muttered…”
See “…the description of slavery…,” above.