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“Sims nursed his friend…”
“…time to reflect…”
“…dutiful thesis on croup…”
“…Sims called on Dr. Pattison…”
“…a scratch and some virus.”
“…a mark on Sims’s arm…”
“…had completely forgotten…”
“Lucas and two other students…”
“…the coming of Mithridates VI…”
“…hints of its return…”
“…1456…”
“…1531…1607…”
“…Edmond Halley anticipated…”
“Journalists thrilled…”

“Sims nursed his friend…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 131.

“…time to reflect…”

Sims does not attest to this reflection until his medical studies were over, and when he says that he had seen nothing of illness he omits the fact that he has just described watching a good friend die of smallpox.

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 138-39.

“…dutiful thesis on croup…”

Cynanche laryngo-trachealis appears to be a form of croup or hives. Sims never mentioned the disease again, and a close medical school friend wrote a thesis on the same subject, as did several others.

“Annual Announcement of Lectures, for the Session 1835-1836: And a Catalogue of the Students and Graduates,” p. 16. This pamphlet is held by the special collections department of the Scott Memorial Library at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“…Sims called on Dr. Pattison…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 131-32.

“…a scratch and some virus.”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 132-33.

“…a mark on Sims’s arm…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 132.

“…had completely forgotten…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 132-33.

“Lucas and two other students…”

This document is exceedingly rare. It appears there is only one extant copy, held at the Library of Congress.

“Address Delivered at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Febraury 25, 1835, in Commemoration of the Death of James E. Lucas, of Alabama, Robert P. Harris, and Fayette F. Senseny, of Virginia, Late Members of the Medical Class of that Institution,” James S. Bell, Philadelphia: William Brown, 1835.