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“…nor death to die.”
“…less as though he was outside of his body…”
“…assured progress of the hospital.”
“He offered a bold complaint…”
“…only evening of the year…”
“…had already been cast in bronze.”
“…their mildest, early stages.”
“He asked why fifteen visitors…”
“…no right to interfere…”
“…failed to confine themselves…”
“…nor death to die.”
From the remarks of Cornelius R. Agnew, the year’s invited speaker, recorded in the pamphlet celebrating the 1874 anniversary of Woman’s Hospital, p. 53. The pamphlet is held at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes for Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
“…less as though he was outside of his body…”
See “…felt his mind begin to detach…,” above.
“…assured progress of the hospital.”
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., pp. 12-13.
“He offered a bold complaint…”
See “…pithy metaphors…,” above.
“…only evening of the year…”
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. 13.
“…had already been cast in bronze.”
“Monumental Error,” J.C. Hallman, Harper’s Magazine, November 2017, p. 37.
“…their mildest, early stages.”
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. 14.
“He asked why fifteen visitors…”
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. 14.
“…no right to interfere…”
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. 14.
“…failed to confine themselves…”
I have ratcheted Sims’s rhetoric up a notch, in keeping with the accounts of others who heard him speak and were asked to comment on it later.
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., pp. 14-15.
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. 18.
