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“…sixty-seven-and-a-half pounds.”
“…the plan he had envisioned years before…”
“…to close the stalk…”
“The woman recovered…”
“For the next several years…”
“…the woman from Philadelphia…”
“The disease burst forth again…”
“Silver sutures, he was certain…”
“…from too high a station…”
“…barred all cancer surgeries.”
“…there were dozens of them.”
“A new outdoor clinic…”
“…in the winter months…”
“The operating room…”
“A modern ventilating apparatus…”
“…reserved as a dressing room.”
“…laundry and coal house…”
“…an icehouse…”
“…vapor baths.”
“…a telegraph line…”
“…sixty-seven-and-a-half pounds.”
“Ovariotomy: Pedicle Secured by Silver Wire Ligatures: Cure,” J. Marion Sims, British Medical Journal, April 10, 1869, p. 326.
“…the plan he had envisioned years before…”
See “…the doomed, stabbed slave,” above.
“…to close the stalk…”
“Ovariotomy: Pedicle Secured by Silver Wire Ligatures: Cure,” J. Marion Sims, British Medical Journal, April 10, 1869, p. 326.
“The woman recovered…”
Sims’s British Medical Jorunal piece indicates that he wrote it while in Fauborg St. Honoré, Paris.
“Ovariotomy: Pedicle Secured by Silver Wire Ligatures: Cure,” J. Marion Sims, British Medical Journal, April 10, 1869, p. 326.
“For the next several years…”
“The Treatment of Epithelioma of the Cervix Uteri,” J. Marion Sims, The Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Vol. 12, No. 3, July 1879, p. 454.
“…the woman from Philadelphia…”
See “…an enlargement on her left side…,” above.
“The disease burst forth again…”
“The Treatment of Epithelioma of the Cervix Uteri,” J. Marion Sims, The Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Vol. 12, No. 3, July 1879, p. 454.
“Silver sutures, he was certain…”
Sims’s paper, published many years later, indicates the flaw in the theory he had acted on after he returned from Paris.
“The Treatment of Epithelioma of the Cervix Uteri,” J. Marion Sims, The Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Vol. 12, No. 3, July 1879, p. 454.
“…from too high a station…”
See “…but Sims balked,” above.
“…barred all cancer surgeries.”
See “…his vision began to grow…” and “…hesitant about his cancer cases…,” above.
The prohibition on cancer cases is further revealed in documents cited below.
“…there were dozens of them.”
Marr has his dates mixed up, slightly. The new hospital opened in 1868.
Marr, J. P. (1957). Pioneer surgeons of the Woman's Hospital: The lives of Sims, Emmet, Peaslee, and Thomas. Philadelphia: Davis. pp. 35, 38.
“A new outdoor clinic…”
From the remarks of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 29. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“…in the winter months…”
From the remarks of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 31. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“The operating room…”
My scan of the 1868 pamphlet is incomplete, but I think my description is accurate. I am inferring the fact that the surgical theaters can accommodate dozens of visitors from the fact that it did so, as will be documented below.
From the remarks of the Building Committee, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 28. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“A modern ventilating apparatus…”
From the remarks of the Building Committee, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 28. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“…reserved as a dressing room.”
See “The operating room…,” above.
“…laundry and coal house…”
From the remarks of the Building Committee, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 28. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“…an icehouse…”
From a couple of years later.
From the minutes of the December 28, 1870, meeting of the Board of Lady Supervisors, held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.
“…vapor baths.”
From the remarks of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 30. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“…a telegraph line…”
From several years later.
From the minutes of the April 8, 1874, meeting of the Board of Lady Supervisors, held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.