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“…their Butler Springs property…”

See “…a sulfur spring in Butler County…,” above.

Documents about the Sims sale of the Butler County property are held at the probate office of the Butler County Courthouse in Greenville, Alabama.

“…sell their slaves…”

Letter from J. Marion Sims to Theresa Sims, December 23, 1854. Reprinted in Sims’s autobiography. A selection of Sims’s letters to Theresa is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries.

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 393.

“…could not be avoided.”

Letter from J. Marion Sims to Theresa Sims, December 29, 1854. Reprinted in Sims’s autobiography. A selection of Sims’s letters to Theresa is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries.

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 395-96.

“…progress with the ladies…”

Letter from J. Marion Sims to Theresa Sims, January 7, 1855. Reprinted in Sims’s autobiography. A selection of Sims’s letters to Theresa is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries.

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 393.

“…$1,250…”

Letter from J. Marion Sims to Theresa Sims, February 24, 1856. A selection of Sims’s letters to Theresa is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries.

“…Home of the Friendless Campaign…”

See “…progress with the ladies…,” above.

“…New York’s lying-in hospital.”

Letter from J. Marion Sims to Theresa Sims, January 24, 1855. Reprinted in Sims’s autobiography. A selection of Sims’s letters to Theresa is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries.

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 404.

“…status or the necessary fortune.”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 291.

“…Jacob Westervelt…”

Westervelt was the mayor of New York City at this time.

Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 148.

“…Common Council fund.”

“Biographical Sketch of J. Marion Sims, M.D.,” Henri L. Stuart, Virginia Medical Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 10, January 1877, p. 733.

“…Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 291.

“…a small, frail woman…”

Memorial Service of the Late Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus, the. Beloved and Lamented President of the Woman’s Union Missionary Society, New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1877, p. 13.

“…the Isaac T. Hopper Home…”

In Wilson, J. G., & In Fiske, J. (1891). Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography. New York: D. Appleton, Vol. 2, p. 202.

“…New York House of School and Industry…”

In Wilson, J. G., & In Fiske, J. (1891). Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography. New York: D. Appleton, Vol. 2, p. 202.

“…New York Nursery and Child’s Hospital…”

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/nursery/bioghist.html

“He met with Doremus…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 291.

“…seasoning the tale…”

The all-female administrative board of Woman’s Hospital went by several names over the years—the Woman’s Hospital Association, the Board of Lady Managers, and the Board of Lady Supervisors, the latter two existing at the same time (the Supervisors were a small and more regularly active subcommittee comprised of Managers). For the sake of simplicity, I have limited the story to the Board of Lady Managers, comprising the efforts of all of these groups.

The description of fistula in the minutes of the very first meetings of the Woman’s Hospital Association on January 8 and February 10, 1855, make it clear that Sims had described fistula as a condition that was frequently fatal. Fistula is a horrible condition, and part of the horror of it is that if it does prove fatal, it takes a long, long time. Sims had his finger on the scale, here.

The minutes are held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.

“…his own failing health…”

See “Barnum waved a hand…,” above.

From the first meetings of the Woman’s Hospital Association on January 8 and February 10, 1855. The minutes are held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.

“…insisted on several others…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 292.