“…planned to open a hospital…”

Horsman, R. (1987). Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, physician, and racial theorist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, p. 62.

“…theory of polygenesis”

Horsman, R. (1987). Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, physician, and racial theorist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, p. 83-84.

“…an endless supply of ethnographic stock…”

Horsman, R. (1987). Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, physician, and racial theorist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, p. 58.

“…the opportunity to pursue theories…”

Anticipating the book for which Nott would be notoriously known.

Nott, J. C., Gliddon, G. R., & Morton, S. G. (1854). Types of mankind or, Ethnological Researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history. Philadelphie: J. B. Lippincott.

“The duel was fought…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 90.

“…shot through the abdomen…”

“Description of the Modification of the Double Inclined Plane, with an exposition of its advantages over other apparatus for fractures of the lower extremity,” Josiah C. Nott, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. XLV, November 1838, p. 26.

“The young man’s thigh…”

“Description of the Modification of the Double Inclined Plane, with an exposition of its advantages over other apparatus for fractures of the lower extremity,” Josiah C. Nott, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. XLV, November 1838, p. 26.

“…a stroke of genius.”

“Description of the Modification of the Double Inclined Plane, with an exposition of its advantages over other apparatus for fractures of the lower extremity,” Josiah C. Nott, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. XLV, November 1838, p. 27.

“…on crutches by July 31…”

“Description of the Modification of the Double Inclined Plane, with an exposition of its advantages over other apparatus for fractures of the lower extremity,” Josiah C. Nott, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. XLV, November 1838, p. 27.

“Sims graduated…”

Sims’s diploma, held at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

“…December 1832…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 113.

“For a month, lovelorn…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 113-14.

“…he had done so by default…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 115.