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“…the New York Times heralded his return…”
“…it was ‘Malakoff’…”
“When the fighting started…”
“…enough surgeons.”
“…their mail was being monitored…”
“…set foot in a northern home.”
“…the Board of Lady Managers had become more assertive…”
“…threatening to close the hospital…”
“…Sims focused on his plans…”
“…the French artists…”
“…would simultaneously appear…”
“…choosing instead to focus on cervical amputations…”
“In one instance…”
“…his Belgian Legion of Honor award.”
“…a close associate of Henry Raymond…”
“The closest Sims…”
“But hadn’t Raymond served…”
“…sung his praises…”
“…the New York Times heralded his return…”
The New York Times, January 14, 1862.
“…it was ‘Malakoff’…”
See “…introduced to ‘Malakoff’…,” above.
“When the fighting started…”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 180.
“…enough surgeons.”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 181.
“…their mail was being monitored…”
I am assuming that if Emmet was being watched, so was Sims, particularly as the police had already been investigating him (see “It was a tip…” and “…wholly secessionist in spirit…,” above).
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 183.
“…set foot in a northern home.”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 182.
“…the Board of Lady Managers had become more assertive…”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, pp. 190-91.
“…threatening to close the hospital…”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 189.
“…Sims focused on his plans…”
The minutes of the May 6, 1862, meeting of the Board of Managers 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.
“…the French artists…”
Sims worked with a number of artists, mostly French.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. vii.
“…would simultaneously appear…”
The title pages of the American, English, and French versions of Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, published in 1866.
“…choosing instead to focus on cervical amputations…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 214.
“In one instance…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 87-88.
“…his Belgian Legion of Honor award.”
Transcripts of letters from Henry Shelton Sanford to William Seward, January 9, 1862, and February 1, 1862, held in the State Department archives at the Archives II facility in Washington D.C.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 349-50.
“…a close associate of Henry Raymond…”
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 229.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 350.
“The closest Sims…”
See “…the office of Henry Raymond,” above.
“But hadn’t Raymond served…”
The pamphlet of the Woman’s Hospital annual gala in 1856, pp. 3, 26, held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 350.
“…sung his praises…”
See “…the New York Times heralded his return…,” above.