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“…Tilghman Tucker…”
The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, LA), July 7, 1850, p. 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilghman_Tucker
“…a medical man with a mysterious cure…”
The Daily Delta (New Orleans, LA), March 4, 1852, p. 2.
“…many considered him a quack.”
The Daily Delta (New Orleans, LA), March 19, 1850, p. 2.
“Sims first heard of Gilbert’s practice…”
Sims publicly took note of Gilbert’s career only late in life, but as Gilbert was achieving prominence in New Orleans just at the time of Sims’s visit, and, as will be seen later, as Gilbert moved to New York at approximately the same time as Sims (and as Sims already had an interest in treating cancer), it’s very likely that Sims would have taken note when Gilbert’s story was prominent in New Orleans newspapers.
“The Treatment of Epithelioma of the Cervix Uteri,” J. Marion Sims, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children,” Vol. 12, No. 3, July 1879, p. 454.