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“…nothing less than a grand palace…”
“…could no longer be trusted…”
“Sims was particularly effective…”
“Sims and Stuart conspired…”
“A four-man team was installed…”
“…not even Caroline Lane…”
“…working for Emmet during the war.”
“Thomas had South Carolina…”
“…with Emmet at the Ward’s Island…”
“…A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women.”
“…a New Englander…”
“…the Committee on Ethics…”
“…could feel the man’s loathing…”
“…the New York University…”
“…Ovarian Tumors: Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Especially by Ovariotomy.”
“…nothing less than a grand palace…”
From the remarks of J. Marion Sims, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1868 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 34. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“…could no longer be trusted…”
See “Stuart agreed with Sims’s plan…,” above.
As noted above, Stuart and Sims were working closely together from the time of Sims’s return from Europe to the end of Stuart’s life. Sims was on the Board of Governors at this time, as this document reveals, but it’s highly likely that Sims and Stuart were working together to initiate and implement these changes.
Report for the month of December 1871, Board of Lady Supervisors. The minutes are held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.
“Sims was particularly effective…”
See “…a small, frail woman…,” above.
Doremus was on the brink of retiring from the board.
“Sims and Stuart conspired…”
See “…could no longer be trusted…,” above.
“A four-man team was installed…”
“…not even Caroline Lane…”
See “…the details of every inmate,” above.
“…working for Emmet during the war.”
Marr, J. P. (1957). Pioneer surgeons of the Woman's Hospital: The lives of Sims, Emmet, Peaslee, and Thomas. Philadelphia: Davis. p. 128.
“Thomas had South Carolina…”
Marr, J. P. (1957). Pioneer surgeons of the Woman's Hospital: The lives of Sims, Emmet, Peaslee, and Thomas. Philadelphia: Davis. p. 124.
“…with Emmet at the Ward’s Island…”
See “…11,000 patients…,” above.
Marr, J. P. (1957). Pioneer surgeons of the Woman's Hospital: The lives of Sims, Emmet, Peaslee, and Thomas. Philadelphia: Davis. p. 125.
“…A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women.”
Thomas, T. G., & Mundé, P. F. (1868). A practical treatise on the diseases of women. Philadelphia: Lea.
“…a New Englander…”
Marr, J. P. (1957). Pioneer surgeons of the Woman's Hospital: The lives of Sims, Emmet, Peaslee, and Thomas. Philadelphia: Davis. p. 105.
“…the Committee on Ethics…”
See “He was guilty…,” above.
“…could feel the man’s loathing…”
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 305.
“…the New York University…”
Marr, J. P. (1957). Pioneer surgeons of the Woman's Hospital: The lives of Sims, Emmet, Peaslee, and Thomas. Philadelphia: Davis. p. 109.
“…Ovarian Tumors: Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Especially by Ovariotomy.”
Peaslee, E. R. (1872). Ovarian tumors: Their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, especially by ovariotomy. New York: D. Appleton & Company.