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“…Brown’s procedure without consent…”
“…calling for a scientific investigation…”
“…began in late February.”
“On April 3…”
“Doctors began to arrive…”
“…supposed to last an hour…”
“Cries of No!…”
“There were speeches…”
“There was jeering…”
“…Dr. Brown-Séquard had insisted…”
“…grave ethical faults…”
“…hitherto regarded as hopeless.”
“Circulars would be distributed…”
“…a ‘hospital for women’…”
“…God’s great goodness…”
“…Brown’s procedure without consent…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 399.
“…calling for a scientific investigation…”
“Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his Harmless Operative Procedure,” Elizabeth Sheehan, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 1981, p. 13.
“…began in late February.”
“Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his Harmless Operative Procedure,” Elizabeth Sheehan, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 1981, p. 13.
“On April 3…”
There is no direct evidence that Sims attended the expulsion procedure. However, he was an honorary member of the society (see “…honorary member of that city’s obstetrical society…,” above), and he was in London at the time. Furthermore, the reviews of Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery certainly would have made him concerned about what might happen to doctors who wound up on the wrong side of opinion about the propriety of medicine.
“Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his Harmless Operative Procedure,” Elizabeth Sheehan, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 1981, p. 13.
“Doctors began to arrive…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 395.
“…supposed to last an hour…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, pp. 400, 409.
“Cries of No!…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 396.
“There were speeches…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, pp. 396, 398.
“There was jeering…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 397.
“…Dr. Brown-Séquard had insisted…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 403.
“…grave ethical faults…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, pp. 387, 395, 397.
“…hitherto regarded as hopeless.”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 397.
“Circulars would be distributed…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 397.
“…a ‘hospital for women’…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 397.
“…God’s great goodness…”
“Proposition of the Council for the Removal of Mr. I.B. Brown,” British Medical Journal, April 6, 1867, p. 397.