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“…Charity Hospital.”
“Daughter Fannie…”
“…engaged to Thomas Pratt…”
“In September…”
“…Dr. Nélaton…”
“…relented and quickly conceived.”
“…dozens of country châteaux.”
“…a trowel-shaped portion…”
“A number of similar cases…”
“In early 1863…”
“…not a case of premature ejaculation.”
“…Sims examined the wife’s cervix…”
“He failed to find…”
“…a kind of evacuating power…”
“…a young, beautiful woman with ancestors…”
“…he read is paper on the subject…”
“…there were open challenges…”
“…that the condition was unknown…”
“…he would eliminate the claims…”
“Spencer Wells questioned…”
“…Brown faulted…”
“…Charity Hospital.”
A selection of original documents, letters, notices, etc., relating to Sims’s time in Paris is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries.
“Daughter Fannie…”
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 231.
“…engaged to Thomas Pratt…”
It’s not entirely clear when Pratt began working for Sims, or otherwise became officially part of his practice. Prior to this, Sims had already begun to note the presence of his future son-in-law—as will documented later, the marriage would take place in 1864—at a variety of surgeries.
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 260.
“In September…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 153.
“…Dr. Nélaton…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 153.
“…relented and quickly conceived.”
For the sake of simplicity, I have eliminated an intervening case here.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 154.
“…dozens of country châteaux.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 155.
“…a trowel-shaped portion…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 310.
“A number of similar cases…”
Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery was published in 1866; it can be assumed that the cases he refers to fall between 1862 and 1866.
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 317.
“In early 1863…”
Sims is imprecise with his dates here—I am placing it in early 1863, and I am combining details from a couple of different cases (though it seems even in Sims’s book that the same case has been repeated twice).
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 350.
“…not a case of premature ejaculation.”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, pp. 355-56.
“…Sims examined the wife’s cervix…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 355.
“He failed to find…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 355.
“…a kind of evacuating power…”
Sims, J. M. (1990). Silver sutures in surgery; together with Clinical notes on uterine surgery. Birmingham, Ala: Classics of Obstetrics & Gynecology Library, p. 356.
“…a young, beautiful woman with ancestors…”
Sims, J. M. (1880). Pregnancy-vomiting. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, p. 5.
“…he read is paper on the subject…”
“On Vaginismus,” J. Marion Sims, Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, Vol. 3, 1862, p. xxxv.
“…there were open challenges…”
In the printed transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, brief summaries of the audience’s comments after the talk were included with the publication of the paper.
“On Vaginismus,” J. Marion Sims, Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, Vol. 3, 1862, pp. 367.
“…that the condition was unknown…”
In characteristically duplicitous fashion, Sims simultaneously claimed that the condition had likely been around forever, but that he’d never seen nor heard of it. English doctors were under no illusions—Sims was claiming to be the discoverer of a new disease.
“On Vaginismus,” J. Marion Sims, Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, Vol. 3, 1862, p. 359.
“…he would eliminate the claims…”
Uncitable—but there is no mention in Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery of vaginismus having previously been undetected.
“Spencer Wells questioned…”
“Report of the Obstetrical Society of London,” British Medical Journal, January 31, 1863, Vol. 1, p. 126.
“…Brown faulted…”
“Report of the Obstetrical Society of London,” British Medical Journal, March 28, 1863, Vol. 1, p. 335.