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“…diagrams and plates…”
From an unpublished and untitled profile of Thomas Grimball Prioleau, held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, p. 3.
“…he was working again…”
The description of Prioleau’s lecture is a more elaborate form of the scene—informed by a variety of other documents—than the description Sims provides of the same episode in his autobiography. See “Gentlemen, Professor Prioleau said…,” below.
“…Auzoux’s manikin…”
Annual Announcement of the Trustees and Faculty of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina for the Session ’40-’41, p. 12. The Annual Announcement is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…the pains that were inflicted on woman…”
“Introductory Address Delivered at the Opening of the Medical College of the State of South-Carolina,” James Moultrie, Jr., p. 14. The address was later printed as a pamphlet, and the copy I found was located at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…‘genu-pectoral’…”
The image of the “Genu-pectoral” position comes from “Pneumatic Self-Replacement in Dislocations of the Gravid and Non-Gravid Uterus,” Henry F. Campbell, Transactions of the American Gynecological Society, Vol. 1, 1877, H.O. Houghton and Co., p. 208.