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“…one case that caused a sensation.”
“…the best lecturer on anatomy…”
“…chained students to their chairs…”
“…the stream of spittle…”
“…the solo dissection of the dead body.”
“…out of the peccadilloes…”
“…a young man named James Lucas…”
“The young Lucas’s preceptor…”
“…who lived nearby…”
“…fifty cents in his pocket.”
“His first consultation fee…”
“…$15,000 per year…”
“…two hundred slaves of his own…”
“…and a horse track…”
“…old, indiscriminate bleeders…”
“…a medical book in twenty years.”
“…a series of laws…”
“…one case that caused a sensation.”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 136.
“…the best lecturer on anatomy…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 137.
“…chained students to their chairs…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 137.
“…the stream of spittle…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 137.
“…the solo dissection of the dead body.”
Pattison, G. S. (1832). A discourse delivered on commencing the lectures in Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia: French & Perkins, p. 27.
“…out of the peccadilloes…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 137.
“…a young man named James Lucas…”
Sims’s autobiography does not say much about his relationship with James Lucas, and does not detail what Lucas told him about Alabama. Sims’s biographer, however says that Sims had been hearing about Alabama for years—it is natural, therefore, that they would have talked about Alabama during their friendship and as Sims nursed his sick friend. The details I attribute to Lucas draw on a variety of sources.
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 131.
Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 242.
“The young Lucas’s preceptor…”
See “…the master had a son…,” above.
“…who lived nearby…”
See “…a big house called Bright Spot,” above.
“…fifty cents in his pocket.”
From a document copied from the Birmingham Age-Herald, April 10, 1892. The document is titled “Murmur of the World,” unsigned, and is held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama, p. 6.
“His first consultation fee…”
From a document copied from the Birmingham Age-Herald, April 10, 1892. The document is titled “Murmur of the World,” unsigned, and is held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama, p. 6.
“…$15,000 per year…”
From a document copied from the Birmingham Age-Herald, April 10, 1892. The document is titled “Murmur of the World,” unsigned, and is held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama, p. 6.
“…two hundred slaves of his own…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 148.
“…and a horse track…”
From a document copied from the Birmingham Age-Herald, April 10, 1892. The document is titled “Murmur of the World,” unsigned, and is held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama, p. 6.
“…old, indiscriminate bleeders…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 175.
“…a medical book in twenty years.”
Horsman, R. (1987). Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, physician, and racial theorist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, p. 59.
“…a series of laws…”
“History of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama,” Douglas L. Cannon, Journal of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, Vol. 8, No. 9, March 1935, p. 314.