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“…medical school thesis…”
“…Aralia Spinosa…”
“…Devil’s walking-stick…”
“…to cure rattlesnake bites.”
“…confused with devil’s shoestring…”
“…adding alcohol to an infusion…”
“He drank several glasses…”
“…snorted it in a powdered form…”
“…substitute for ipecac.”
“…he diligently wrote letters…”
“…games of chess…”
“…he occasionally attended frolics…”
“…the man had married well…”
“…his lectures were like sermons…”
“…who so abhorred pain…”
“…‘Pharmacologia’…”
“…Sims didn’t particularly care…”
“…the man’s lectures were dull…”
“…organic and inorganic…”
“…medicine is knowledge.”
“Physcians, therefore, were instruments…”
“…medical school thesis…”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…Aralia Spinosa…”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, p. 1.
“…Devil’s walking-stick…”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina. Prioleau cite’s “Devil’s club,” but I found that “Devil’s Walking-stick” was more popular, p. 3.
“…to cure rattlesnake bites.”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, pp. 10-11.
“…confused with devil’s shoestring…”
Narrative of Henry Lewis.
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, p. 3.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 3, p. 13.
“…adding alcohol to an infusion…”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, p. 4.
“He drank several glasses…”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, p. 7.
“…snorted it in a powdered form…”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, p. 8.
“…substitute for ipecac.”
Prioleau’s thesis is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina, pp. 12-13.
“…he diligently wrote letters…”
Although no letters survive from Sims’s time in Charleston—this one is dated December 31, 1835, a few months after he finished in Charleston—a number of his early letters have survived. A selection is held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill libraries. Many of these letters were reproduced in an appendix of Sims’s autobiography
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 374.
“…games of chess…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 127.
“…he occasionally attended frolics…”
Further evidenced by an episode a little later in the book. See “…Fayall’s Ballroom…,” below.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 121.
“…the man had married well…”
“John Edwards Holbrook, Father of American Herpetology,” Richard D. Worthington and Patricia H. Worthington, p. xv, copy held by the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…his lectures were like sermons…”
“John Edwards Holbrook, Father of American Herpetology,” Richard D. Worthington and Patricia H. Worthington, p. xv, copy held by the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…who so abhorred pain…”
“John Edwards Holbrook, Father of American Herpetology,” Richard D. Worthington and Patricia H. Worthington, p. xv, copy held by the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…‘Pharmacologia’…”
Frost, H. R. (1841). Elements of the materia medica and therapeutics. Charleston, S.C: Burges & James, printers and publishers, p. i.
“…Sims didn’t particularly care…”
Frost, H. R. (1841). Elements of the materia medica and therapeutics. Charleston, S.C: Burges & James, printers and publishers, pp. iii-iv.
“…the man’s lectures were dull…”
“Henry Rutledge Frost: 1795-1866,” a brief, unpublished, uncredited essay held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…organic and inorganic…”
Annual Announcement of the Trustees and Faculty of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina for the Session ’40-’41, p. 11. The Annual Announcement is held at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“…medicine is knowledge.”
“Introductory Address Delivered at the Opening of the Medical College of the State of South-Carolina,” James Moultrie, Jr., pp. 6-7. The address was later printed as a pamphlet, and the copy I found was located at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
“Physicians, therefore, were instruments…”
“Introductory Address Delivered at the Opening of the Medical College of the State of South-Carolina,” James Moultrie, Jr., p. 10-11. The address was later printed as a pamphlet, and the copy I found was located at the Waring Historical Library in Charleston, South Carolina.
