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“…slabs of raw meat…”
“…alkaline and not acidic urine…”
“…a better version of the Sims speculum…”
“…used wire sutures before Sims.”
“How could any serious surgeon…”
“…did everything other specula did…”
“…no longer a wonder of the world.”
“…Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid…”
“…Peter Möller’s cod liver oil.”
“…to outright browbeat husbands…”
“His vaginismus surgery…”
“…an enlargement on her left side.”
“Sims quickly scheduled…”
“…experimental anesthesia…”
“A three-and-a-half inch incision…”
“…the firmer body of the tumor.”

“…slabs of raw meat…”

Bozeman, N., & Simon, G. (1877). On kolpokleisis and other allied procedures as means of treating vesico-vaginal fistule: Being an answer to the article of the late Prof. Gustave Simon, of Heidelberg, entitled "A comparison of Bozeman's operation with that of the author". Louisville: Richmond, p. 15.

“…alkaline and not acidic urine…”

Bozeman, N., & Simon, G. (1877). On kolpokleisis and other allied procedures as means of treating vesico-vaginal fistule: Being an answer to the article of the late Prof. Gustave Simon, of Heidelberg, entitled "A comparison of Bozeman's operation with that of the author". Louisville: Richmond, p. 13.

“…a better version of the Sims speculum…”

“Remarks Upon Soms Points Referring to Success in the Operation of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula,” M. Schuppert, Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol. 20, 1869, pp. 451-52. The transactions are available through the AMA’s website.

“…used wire sutures before Sims.”

Schuppert, M. (1866). A . Treatise on Vesico-Vaginal Fistula. New Orleans: Daily Commercial Bulletin Print, p. 43.

“How could any serious surgeon…”

“Remarks Upon Soms Points Referring to Success in the Operation of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula,” M. Schuppert, Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol. 20, 1869, p. 458. The transactions are available through the AMA’s website.

“…did everything other specula did…”

“On a New Duck-Bill Speculum, for Private Practice,” J.C. Nott, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 56, October 1868, p. 420.

“…no longer a wonder of the world.”

“On a New Duck-Bill Speculum, for Private Practice,” J.C. Nott, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 56, October 1868, p. 421.

“…Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid…”

The advertisement for Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid included in the printed book appears in the Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL), October 7, 1858. Similar ads would appear until at least the end of Sims’s life, in 1883.

“…Peter Möller’s cod liver oil.”

One of many.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY), May 5, 1870, p. 2.

“…to outright browbeat husbands…”

See “…appeal to a husband's manly spirit…,” above.

“His vaginismus surgery…”

See “…too bloody, too American…,” above.