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“As the woman spoke…”
As is typical of Sims, every insight he has is couched as a “revelation,” or is otherwise dramatized. I have elaborated on his telling of the scene, slightly, to grant his patient emotions that would have been likely at the time.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 274.
“…molding forms from block tin…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 279.
“…silver or vulcanite.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 280.
“…a new uterine elevator…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 267.
“…to be a single ailment.”
See “…a surgery on the cervical canal…” and “Whatever prevented the egress…,” above.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp, 139-40; 3.
“…install plugs as the wounds healed.”
“On the Surgical Treatment of Stenosis of the Cervix Uteri,” J. Marion Sims, Transactions of the American Gynecological Society, Vol. 3, 1878, p. 60.
“Sims first attempted the procedure…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 149.
“…Sims arrived barely in time…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 149.
“Résumé on Incision and Division of the Cervix Uteri for Dysmenorrhea and Sterility,” Montrose A. Pallen, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Vol. 10, 1877, p. 374.
