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“…merciful solution to gyromania…”
“…she was put to three-four time…”
“…the most gentle and lifesaving of treatments…”
“…Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill…”
“…the pale, female forms…”
“…a thing wholly new under the sun.”
“…conflated masturbation and insanity…”
“…the effects of a dubious surgery…”
“…hysteria cures…”
“…considerably exaggerated…”
“…rescued from harsher treatment…”
“…Brown had been among the first…”
“When the first call came…”
“…he responded forcefully…”
“The calls for his removal…”
“…merciful solution to gyromania…”
Scoffern, J., & Royal College of Surgeons of England. (1867). The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology: Being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown. (Medical Heritage Library.) London: Published by Dr. Scoffern, p. 6.
“…she was put to three-four time…”
Scoffern, J., & Royal College of Surgeons of England. (1867). The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology: Being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown. (Medical Heritage Library.) London: Published by Dr. Scoffern, p. 14.
“…the most gentle and lifesaving of treatments…”
Scoffern, J., & Royal College of Surgeons of England. (1867). The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology: Being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown. (Medical Heritage Library.) London: Published by Dr. Scoffern, p. 14.
“…Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill…”
Scoffern, J., & Royal College of Surgeons of England. (1867). The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology: Being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown. (Medical Heritage Library.) London: Published by Dr. Scoffern, p. 5.
“…the pale, female forms…”
Scoffern, J., & Royal College of Surgeons of England. (1867). The London Surgical Home, or, modern surgical psychology: Being a popular statement of the operations therein performed by Mr. Isaac Baker Brown. (Medical Heritage Library.) London: Published by Dr. Scoffern, p. 5.
“…a thing wholly new under the sun.”
“Reviews and Notices,” unsigned, British Medical Journal, April 28, 1866, p. 438.
“…conflated masturbation and insanity…”
“Reviews and Notices,” unsigned, British Medical Journal, April 28, 1866, p. 439.
“…the effects of a dubious surgery…”
“Reviews and Notices,” unsigned, British Medical Journal, April 28, 1866, p. 439.
“…hysteria cures…”
“Reviews and Notices,” unsigned, British Medical Journal, April 28, 1866, p. 440.
“…considerably exaggerated…”
“Reviews and Notices,” unsigned, British Medical Journal, April 28, 1866, p. 440.
“…rescued from harsher treatment…”
I am speculating here, but the fact is that Sims’s book received a harsh review in February 1866 (several of them, in fact), and then the scandal of Isaac Baker Brown broke and consumed the British medical community for some time. Sims’s remained loyal in the sense that he did not excise Brown from his own works—though he never spoke about the scandal, or about Brown’s surgery, which Sims himself had performed (see “On February 21…,” above).
“…Brown had been among the first…”
See “…gave Sims’s clamp suture all due credit,” above.
“When the first call came…”
British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 395.
“…he responded forcefully…”
“Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his Harmless Operative Procedure,” Elizabeth Sheehan, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 1981, p. 13.
“The calls for his removal…”
“Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his Harmless Operative Procedure,” Elizabeth Sheehan, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 1981, p. 13.