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“…Mrs. Doremus resigned…”
“…a special ward for cancer…”
“…to act as a spy.”
“…thirty-three surgeries.”
“…the procedure he tested on Anarcha.”
“Emmet advised against Sims’s plan…”
“…from Choofoo, China.”
“…Sims scheduled the procedure…”
“…tensions stretching back…”
“Gaillard Thomas presented himself…”
“…too tired to read.”
“…in defense of the profession…”
“…surgery in the morning…”
“…Mrs. Doremus resigned…”
McGregor, D. K., & McGregor, D. K. (1998). From midwives to medicine: The birth of American gynecology, p. 194.
“…a special ward for cancer…”
From the minutes of the September 24, 1874, meeting of the Woman’s Hospital Medical Board, held at the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. Medical Archives and Mount Sinai Records office at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.
“…to act as a spy.”
Sims, J. M. (1877). The Woman's Hospital in 1874: A reply to the printed circular of Drs. E.R. Peaslee, T.A. Emmet, and T. Gaillard Thomas, addressed "To the medical profession," "May 5th, 1877". New York: Kent & Co., p. 16.
“…thirty-three surgeries.”
Emmet, T. A., & Woman's Hospital (New York, N.Y.). (1893). Reminiscences of the founders of the Woman's Hospital Association. New York: Stuyvesant Press, p. 5. First printed in the New York Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.
“…the procedure he tested on Anarcha.”
See “…an opportunity for further experiment,” above.
“Emmet advised against Sims’s plan…”
Emmet, T. A., & Woman's Hospital (New York, N.Y.). (1893). Reminiscences of the founders of the Woman's Hospital Association. New York: Stuyvesant Press, p. 5. First printed in the New York Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.
“…from Choofoo, China.”
“Remarks on Battey’s Operation,” J. Marion Sims, British Medical Journal, December 15, 1877, p. 840.
“…Sims scheduled the procedure…”
“Remarks on Battey’s Operation,” J. Marion Sims, British Medical Journal, December 15, 1877, p. 840.
“…tensions stretching back…”
See “He was guilty…” and “…a fierce blow…,” above.
“Gaillard Thomas presented himself…”
“Editorial Interview with Dr. J. Marion Sims: A Full Exposition of the Points in the Controversy between Drs. Peaslee, Emmet, and Thomas, and Dr. Sims,” The St. Louis Clinical Record, Vol. 4, No. 6, September 1877, p. 160.
“…too tired to read.”
EMMET T. A., PEASLEE, E.R, THOMAS, T.G. (1877). Reply to Dr. J. Marion Sims’s Pamphlet, Entitled ‘The Woman’s Hospital in 1874,’ by His Colleagues, New York: Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding, p. 7.
“…in defense of the profession…”
I am isolating Sims’s entire tone and worldview here, drawing on the tone of a number of documents recalling the days leading up to the 1874 gala.
Sims, J. M. (1877). The Woman's Hospital in 1874: A reply to the printed circular of Drs. E.R. Peaslee, T.A. Emmet, and T. Gaillard Thomas, addressed "To the medical profession," "May 5th, 1877". New York: Kent & Co., p. 16.
“…surgery in the morning…”
“Utero-gastrotomy,” J. Marion Sims, The Medical Record, Vol. 10, 1875, p. 108.