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“…Sims and Bozeman formed a partnership…”

Accounts disagree on when exactly Sims departed for New York. The partnership was still being advertised six months after Sims had left the state for good.

“Nathan Bozeman,” Emmet B. Carmichael, Alabama Journal of Medicine and Science, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1969, p. 234.

The Weekly Advertiser (Montgomery, AL), January 4, 1854, p. 4.

“…Sims’s home and office.”

Bozeman appears to feel that he had been duped by Sims.

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, pp. 3-4, ft.

The official bill of sale for Sims’s property, purchased in 1853 for $10,000, by Nathan Bozeman, is held at the Montgomery County Archives in Montgomery, AL.

“Sims had attested to perfect results…”

“On the Treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula,” J. Marion Sims, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. XXIII, 1852, pp. 70, 82.

“…the truth was half that.”

“Remarks on Vescio-Vaginal Fistula, With an Account of a New Mode of Suture,” Nathan Bozeman, Louisville Review, Vol. 1, 1856, p. 101.

“…an adroit purloining of another man’s labor.”

Here Bozeman lays out the full case against Sims, including acknowledging that it was LeVert who deserved credit for silver sutures.

Bozeman, N., & Simon, G. (1877). On kolpokleisis and other allied procedures as means of treating vesico-vaginal fistule: Being an answer to the article of the late Prof. Gustave Simon, of Heidelberg, entitled "A comparison of Bozeman's operation with that of the author". Louisville: Richmond, p. 19, ft.

“Sims performed a final fistula procedure…”

See “…Delia…,” above.

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, pp. 24-25.

“Bozeman submitted a plan…”

See “…the blade of Sims’s speculum…,” above.

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, p. 27.

“…invented a cushioned table…”

Bozeman invented the table for Matilda, who is described a little later in the book. I have omitted this fact to avoid repetition in the narrative. Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, pp. 37-38.

Versions of the image of Bozeman’s supporting apparatus that appears in the printed book appear in the following documents:

Bozeman, N. (1887). The gradual preparatory treatment of the complications of urinary and faecal fistulae in women: Including a special consideration of the treatment of pyelitis by a new method, and the prevention of the evils of incontinence of urine by a new system of drainage. New York, p. 11.

“Remarks on the Advantages of a Supporting and Confining Apparatus, and a Self-retaining Speculum in the Operation of Vesico-vaginal Fistule; Models of Certain Forms of Suture; their Results Practically Contrasted in the same Cases and Upon the Same Fistulous Openings,” Nathan Bozeman, New York Medical Journal, Vol. 8, 1869, p. 485.

“…Emily…”

See “He chose May 18…,” above.

“Case of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula—Cured,” Nathan Bozeman, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 10, 1854.

“…Matilda…”

“Urethro-Vaginal, Vesico-Vaginal, and Recto-Vaginal Fistules; General Remarks; Reports of Cases Successfully Treated with Button Suture,” Nathan Bozeman, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 17, 1860, pp. 194-95.

“…three fistulae…”

“Urethro-Vaginal, Vesico-Vaginal, and Recto-Vaginal Fistules; General Remarks; Reports of Cases Successfully Treated with Button Suture,” Nathan Bozeman, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 17, 1860, p. 195.

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, p. 35.

“…gradual preparation.”

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, pp. 41, 36.

“…for several weeks…”

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, p. 37.

“…a small oil-silk bag…”

Bozeman, N. (1884). History of the clamp suture of the late Dr. J. Marion Sims, and why it was abandoned by the profession, p. 36.