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“It was his charge…”
“…injections to half a dozen couples…”
“…at last achieving success in a barren woman…”
“…a dislocated organ…”
“…none other had been recorded.”
“…miscarried at four months…”
“…woman of refinement and quality…”
“…nervous near-collapse.”
“…to shriek and spasm.”
“…lost feeling in his digit.”
“…given herself over to intellectual efforts.”
“…the woman was anatomically normal…”
“…attempts to dilate her vagina…”
“The solution was apparent enough…”
“…create an opening that would enable intercourse.”
“…could not explain the underlying mystery…”
“…but Sims balked.”
“It was his charge…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 383-84.
“…injections to half a dozen couples…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 380.
“…at last achieving success in a barren woman…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 377.
“…a dislocated organ…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 377.
“…none other had been recorded.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 375.
“…miscarried at four months…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 379-80.
“…woman of refinement and quality…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 329, 332.
“…nervous near-collapse.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 330.
“…to shriek and spasm.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 330.
“…lost feeling in his digit.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 330.
“…given herself over to intellectual efforts.”
See “…woman of refinement and quality…,” above.
“…the woman was anatomically normal…”
Sims first examined the woman outside of New York, probably in New England. She came to the city for the subsequent examination.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 331.
“…attempts to dilate her vagina…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 329-30.
“The solution was apparent enough…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 331.
“…create an opening that would enable intercourse.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 335-36.
“…could not explain the underlying mystery…”
Sims did not attempt to diagnose the underlying condition, and his “cure” was in keeping with a widely held belief that failure to perform “wifely duties,” including motherhood, contributed to anxiety and “nervous ailments.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 331.
“…but Sims balked.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 331.