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“…a wealthy Irish widow.”
“…Belfast and Aberdeen…”
“…the study of hospital design…”
“…the injury that had been inflicted…”
“…Rotunda Hospital…”
“…why American women seemed to bleed…”
“…the operation in its originator’s hands…”
“…deaths resulting from the procedure…”
“Simpson had watched Bozeman…”
“…no cases available.”
“…a young virgin afflicted…”
“…the ‘American Method’…”
“…silver wire to Sims alone…”
“…he would learn nothing new of surgery…”
“…all the London greats…”
“…the London Surgical Home…”
“…a wealthy Irish widow.”
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 209.
“…Belfast and Aberdeen…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 308, 310.
“…the study of hospital design…”
See “…an Old World journey…” above.
“…the injury that had been inflicted…”
See “…besmirching Sims’s name…,” above.
“…Rotunda Hospital…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 307.
“…why American women seemed to bleed…”
See “…a surgery on the cervical canal…,” above.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 309-10.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 149-50.
“…the operation in its originator’s hands…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 309.
“…deaths resulting from the procedure…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 310-11.
“Simpson had watched Bozeman…”
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 211.
“…no cases available.”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 311.
“…a young virgin afflicted…”
See “…a uterine guillotine…,” above.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 83-84.
“…the ‘American Method’…”
There are many, many examples of this.
“Reminiscences of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Paris,” Edmond Souchon, Medical Record, Vol. 46, No. 23, December 8, 1894, p. 706.
“…silver wire to Sims alone…”
“Vesico-vaginal and Recto-vaginal Fistula,” Spencer Wells, British Medical Journal, August 31, 1861, Vol. 2, p. 224.
“…he would learn nothing new of surgery…”
Letter from J. Marion Sims to Theresa Sims, August 10, 1861, held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries. Many of these letters were reproduced in an appendix of Sims’s autobiography.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 411.
“…all the London greats…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 311.
“…the London Surgical Home…”
Materials related to the London Surgical Home are held at the Wellcome Library in London, England.