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“…pamphlets and handbills…”

“A Statement of Facts,” George McClellan, pp. 10, 13-14, held by the special collections department of the Scott Memorial Library at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“…break it over McClellan’s back.”

“A Statement of Facts,” George McClellan, p. 23, held by the special collections department of the Scott Memorial Library at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“…a thirteen-thousand-word essay…”

McClellan’s “A Statement of Facts” fills twenty-four tightly-packed pages.

“A Statement of Facts,” George McClellan, p. 23, held by the special collections department of the Scott Memorial Library at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“…operations without consultation.”

Pattison, F. L. M. (1987). Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and antagonist, 1791-1851. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, p. 68.

“…he seduced the young wife…”

Pattison, F. L. M. (1987). Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and antagonist, 1791-1851. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, pp. 77-78.

“…having fled Europe…”

Pattison, F. L. M. (1987). Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and antagonist, 1791-1851. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, pp. 87, 89.

“…Pattison fought a duel…”

Pattison, F. L. M. (1987). Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and antagonist, 1791-1851. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, p. 99.

“…ignorant humbug.”

Pattison, F. L. M. (1987). Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and antagonist, 1791-1851. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, p. 84.

“Pattison announced…”

One of several independently published pamphlets produced during the feud.

Pattison, G. S. (1820). A Reply to certain Oral and Written Criticisms, delivered against an Essay on Lithotomy, published in January Number of the American Medical Recorder. Philadelphia, p. 4.

“Another physician had announced…”

Gibson, W., & Pattison, G. S. (1820). Strictures on "Mr. Pattison's reply to certain oral and written criticisms.". Philadelphia: Printed by James Maxwell, p. 2.

“…no discoverer of anything…”

Gibson, W., & Pattison, G. S. (1820). Strictures on "Mr. Pattison's reply to certain oral and written criticisms.". Philadelphia: Printed by James Maxwell, p. 12.

“…the principles of honor.”

I’ve condensed Gibson just a bit.

Gibson, W., & Pattison, G. S. (1820). Strictures on "Mr. Pattison's reply to certain oral and written criticisms.". Philadelphia: Printed by James Maxwell, p. 14.

“…exhumed the body of a young boy.”

Pattison, G. S. (1820). A Reply to certain Oral and Written Criticisms, delivered against an Essay on Lithotomy, published in January Number of the American Medical Recorder. Philadelphia, p. 5.

“…evidence of the puny soul…”

Pattison, G. S. (1820). An answer to a pamphlet entitled "Strictures on Mr. Pattison's reply to certain oral and written criticisms. Baltimore: Richard J. Matchett, p. 47.

“The atmosphere of feud…”

Closer to Sims’s time, Jefferson had suffered from a series of sudden faculty changes.

Gayley, J. F. (1858). A history of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: J.M. Wilson, p. 19.

“…the arena of medicine…”

“The Secret Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates (and the Origin of the American Medical Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics),” Charles T. Ambrose, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Vol. 7, 2005, p. 48.