Seale Harris
Woman's Surgeon. The Life Story of J. Marion Sims

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
(For specific sources of material for each chapter see p. 410.)

 

I. SIMS'S OWN WRITINGS (arranged chronologically)

1. Letters to Theresa Jones, 1835-1836. In Appendix, Sims's The Story of My Life, and in Southern Historical Collection.

2. "Operation for Double Congenital Harelip." Am. J. Dental Sc., 5: 51-56, 1844.

3. "Extraction of Foreign Bodies from the Meatus Auditorius Externus." Am. J. M. Sc., : 336-342, 1845.

4. "Osteo-sarcoma of the Lower Jaw. Resection of the Body of the Bone." Ibid., 11: 128-132, 1846.

5. "Trismus Nascentium. Its Pathology and Treatment." Ibid., 11: 363379, 1846; Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1864.

6. "Removal of the Superior Maxilla for a Tumor of the Antrum." Am. J. M. Sc., 13: 310-314, 1847.

7. "Osteo-sarcoma of the Lower Jaw. Removal of the Body of the Bone." Ibid., 14: 370-373, 1847.

8. "Further Observations of Trismus Nascentium." Ibid., 16: 59-78, 354-366, 1848.

9. "Treatment of Vesicovaginal Fistula." Ibid., 23: 59-82, 1852; Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1853. Also rev., New York M. Times, p. 104, 1853.

10. "Two Cases of Vesicovaginal Fistula." New York M. Gaz., 5: 1-7, 1854.

11. "A Case of Vesicovaginal Fistula with the Os Uteri Closed up in the Bladder." Am. M. Monthly, 1: 109-112, 1854.

12. "A Case of Vesicovaginal Fistula Resisting the Actual Cautery for More Than Seven Years." New York M. Times, 3: 265-267, 1854.

13. Letters to his wife, 1854-1856. In Appendix, The Story of My Life, and in Southern Historical Collection.

14. Letter to his father, August 8, 1855. In Appendix, The Story of My Life, and in Southern Historical Collection.

15. "A New Uterine Elevator." Am. J. M. Sc., 35: 132-134, 1858.

16. Silver Sutures in Surgery. Anniversary discourse before the New York Academy of Medicine, November 18, 1857. New York, Wood, 1858; New York Acad. Med. Anniversary Discourses, vol. 1.

17. "Amputation of the Cervix Uteri." Tr. New York State M. Soc., pp. 367-371, 1861.

18. Letters to his wife, 1861. In Appendix, The Story of My Life, and in Southern Historical Collection.

19. "Vaginismus." Am. M. Times, 4 310-311, 317-318, 1862; Tr. Obst. Soc. London, : 356-367, 1862.

20. "The Method of Uterine Examination." Lancet (London), 2:413-416, 1864.

21. "Uterine Polypi." Ibid., 2: 457-458, 542-544, 627-628, 1864.

22. "Influence of Uterine Displacements upon the Sterile Condition." M. Times and Gaz. (London), : 208-209, 1865,

23. "Painful Menstruation." Lancet, 1: 224-225, 253-254, 338-339, 58788; 2 42, 1865-

24. "Dysmenorrhea." Tr. Obst. Soc. London, : 144-149, 1865.

25. "Dilatation or Division of the Cervix Uteri." Lancet, 1: 440-441, 1865.

26. "Chronic Inversion of the Uterus." Brit. M. J., 2 541, 1865-

27- "A New Form of Curette for the Removal of Uterine Fungoid Granulations." Tr. Obst. Soc. London, 7:72, ,866.

28. "Procidentia Uteri." Ibid., 7: 213-220, 238-252, 1866,

29. "Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, with Special Reference to the Management of the Sterile Condition. Lancet, 2: 413-416, 457-458, 542-544, 627-628, 1864; 1: 17-20, 74-78, 114-115, 214-218, 263-265, 418-420, 1865. Also rev., Ibid., 1: 125-126, 1866; M. Times and Gaz., 1: 133, 148-151, 1866. Also New York, Wood, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1873, 1886. Also London, Hardwicke, 1866. Also Klinik der Gebarmutterchirurgie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Behandlung der Sterilität. Deutsch hrsg. von Hermann Beigel. Erlangen, Enke, 1866, 1870, 1873. Also Notes cliniques sur la sterilité. Traduites de l'anglais par le Dr. l'Heritier. Paris, Masson, 1866.

30. "Ovariotomy. Pedicle Secured by Silver Wire." Brit. M. J., 1: 50-51, 1867; 1: 326, 1869.

31. "Nitrous Oxide Gas as an Anesthetic." Ibid., 1: 349-350, 1868.

32. "The Microscope as an Aid in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sterility." Ibid., 2: 465.466, 492-494, 1868; New York M. J., 8: 393413, 1869. Also New York, Appleton, 1869.

33. The Woman's Hospital Anniversary Address, delivered November 17, 1868. New York, Baker and Godwin, 1868.

34. "Miss Charlotte Cushman's Health." Letter to the editor, New York Times, October 3, 1869.

35. Letter to the Committee on Ethics of the New York Academy of Medicine, April 4, 1870. In Southern Historical Collection.

36. Anglo-American Ambulance. London, Harrison, 1870. 37. "Lady Nurses at the Seat of War." Ala. State J., December 23, 1870.

38. Response to toast on board steamer Atlantic, July 4, 1871. In Appendix, The Story of My Life.

39. "Ovariotomy." New York M. J., ,6: 561-617, 1872; 17 360-387, 1873. Also New York, Appleton, 1873. Also Uber Ovariotomie, Deutsch von Hermann Beigel. Erlangen, Enke, 1873.

40. "Nélaton's Method of Resuscitation from Chloroform Narcosis." Brit. M. J., 2 239-241, 1874.

41. "On Intra-uterine Fibroids, with Illustrations of Methods." New York M. J., 19: 337-360, 1874. Also New York, Appleton, 1874. Also Tumores fibroses intra-uterinos, trad. al español per Agustin Danssa. Barcelona, Ramirez, 1873.

42. "Mechanical Supports of the Uterus." Tr. M. Soc. Virginia, 1870-75, 114-118, 1875.

43. " Utero-gastrotomy." M. Rec., 10: 107-108, 1875.

44. "Vesicovaginal Fistula." Pacific M. and S. J., 18: 53-62,

45. Address as President of American Medical Association, June 8, 1876. Tr. A.M.A., 27: 91-111, 1876. Also Philadelphia, Collins, 1876. Also London, Spottiswoode 1876.

46. "Epithelioma of the Cervix Uteri." Abstr., Brit. M. J., 2: 277, 1876.

47. Remarks in Alois Martin's Hunyadi Janos Aperient Natural Mineral Water. London, The Appolinaris Co., 1877.

48. Address before Medical and Surgical Society of Montgomery, Alabama, March 20, 1877. Montgomery Daily Advertiser, March 21, 1877. Abstr., Appendix, The Story of My Life.

49. Remarks in M. A. Pallen's "Incision and Division of the Cervix Uteri for Dysmenorrhea and Sterility." Am. J. Obst., 10: 371-376, 1877.

50. The Woman's Hospital in 1874. A Reply to the Printed Circulars of Drs. E. R. Peaslee, T. A. Emmet, and T. Gaillard Thomas Addressed to the Medical Profession May 5, 1877. New York, Kent, 1877.

51. "The Discovery of Anesthesia." Virginia M. Monthly, 4:81-100, 1877; 50: 493-497, 1923. Also Richmond, Fergusson, 1877.

52. "Professor Lister's Introductory on Antiseptic Surgery." Brit. M. J., 2: 608-609, 1877.

53. "Battey's Operation." Ibid., 2:793-794, 840-842, 881-882, 916-918, 1877.

54. "Sterility." Johnson's New Universal Cyclopedia, New York, 1877.

55. "Horace Wells." Ibid.

56. "Crawford W. Long." Ibid.

57. "Obituary of Gustav Simon." Am. J. Obst., 10: 80-83, 1877.

58. "Cholecystotomy for the Removal of Gallstones in Dropsy of the Gallbladder." Brit. M. J., 1: 811-815, 1878; Gaillard's M. J., 26: 1-21, 1878. Also (in French) Rev, de lit. med., 3: 564, 1878; 4: 34-78, 107, 250, 278-280, 400-402, 1879. Also (in French) J. de med. chir. et pharmacol. Brux., 68: 418-424, 499-510, 1879.

59. "The Operations of Simpson and Sims for Stenosis of the Cervix Uteri Compared." Abst., Brit. M. J., 2: 365-366, 1878.

60. "Extraction of Foreign Bodies from the Ear." Ibid., 2: 282, 868-869, 1878.

61. "Surgical Treatment of Stenosis of the Cervix Uteri." Tr. Am. Gynec. Soc., 3: 54-100, 1878.

62. "On Syringing the Ear." Brit. M. J., 1: 140, 1879.

63. "A Forceps Case." Ibid., 1: 282, 1879.

64. "Diagnosis of Abscesses of the Liver by Symptoms of Cerebral Hyperaemia." Tr. M. Soc. Virginia, 3: 106-111, 1879; South. Practitioner, 2: 97-103, 1880.

65. "The Treatment of Epithelioma of the Cervix Uteri." Am. J. Obst., 12: 451-489, 1879; Gaillard's M. J., 29: 625-643, 1880. Also New York, Wood, 1879. Also (in French) Ann. de gynec., Paris, 1: 401-422, 188.

66. "The Bromide of Ethyl as an Anesthetic." New York M. Rec., 17: 361-365, 1880; Gaillard's M. J., 29 530-546, 1880.

67. "Thomas Keith and Ovariotomy." Am. J. Obst,, 13: 290-303, 1880. Also New York, Wood, 1880.

68. "Surgeons in Public Journals." M. Rec., 17: 103, 1880.

69. "Pregnancy Vomiting." Arch. Med., 3: 269-276, 1880. Also New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880.

70. Address as President of the American Gynecological Society. Tr. Am. Gynec. Soc., 5 25-37, 1880.

71. Remarks in W. O. Baldwin's "On the Poisonous Properties of Quinine." M. Gaz., 8: 360, 1881.

72. "Treatment of Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomen in Relation to Modern Peritoneal Surgery." Brit. M. J., 2: 925-926, 971-973, 1881; 1: 184-186, 222-223, 260-262, 302-304, 1882; Gaillard's M. J., 34: 318-336, 1882.

73. "The Surgical Treatment of President Garfield." North Am. Rev., 133: 594-601, 1881.

74. "A Remarkable Gunshot Wound." Coll, and Clin. Rec. (Phila.), 3:209-210, 1882.

75. "Treatment of Syphilis." Brit. M. J., 1: 448-450, 1883. Also Indianapolis, Eli Lilly and Co., 1883.

76. "Lydia Mackey and Colonel Tarleton." Harper's Mag., 68: 468-470, 1884-

77. The Story of My Life. Edited by H. Marion-Sims. New York, Appleton, 1884, 1885, 1888.

 

II. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
(arranged alphabetically)

Abell, L.: "J. Marion Sims: An Appreciation." South. M. J., 26: 1013-1019, 1933.

Allemann, A.: "Marion Sims. Zur Jahrhundertfeier seines Geburtestages." München med. Woch., 60: 138-139, 1913. -

Allen, J. H.: "An Essay on the Life of Dr. J. Marion Sims." J. South Carolina M. A., 7: 43-47, 1911.

American Council of Learned Societies: Dictionary of American Biography. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

American Gynecological Society: Transactions, 1879.

American Medical Association: Code of Ethics. Philadelphia, Collins, 1848.

Anderson, M. E.: Cancer of the Breast and Cancer of the Uterus. Clinton, Iowa, Franklin Press, 1939.

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York, Appleton, 1887.

Arnold of Villanova: Breviarum Practicae. Cited in Guthrie (q.v.), p. 113.

Atkinson, W. B., editor: Physicians and Surgeons in the United States. Philadelphia, Robson, 1878.

 

Bailey, Hamilton, and W. J. Bishop: Notable Names in Medicine and Surgery. London, Lewis, 1944.

Baker, Rachel: The First Woman Doctor. New York, Julian Messner, Inc., 1944.

Baldwin, W. O.:

1. "Address of Welcome to Dr. J. Marion Sims." Montgomery (Ala.) Daily Advertiser, Mar. 21, 1877-

2. "On the Poisonous Properties of Quinine." M. Gaz., 8: 360 if., 1881.

3. "Tribute to the Late James Marion Sims." Montgomery Daily Advertiser, Dec. 8, 1883; Gaillard's M. J., 37: 1-9, 1884. Also Appendix, Sims's The Story of My Life.

Barker, Fordyce:

1. "John Bull vs. French Therapeutics; Young America vs. British Surgery." Am. M. Monthly, 1: 461-464, 1854.

2. "Dr. Marion Sims and His Operations in Vienna." M. Rec., 14: 376, 1878.

3. Quoted in New York M. J., 38: 552, 1883.

Bennet, J. H.: "The Surgical Treatment of Painful Menstruation." Lancet, 1: 673-675, 1865.

Bissell, Dougal:

1. "The Sims Memorial Address on Gynecology." Am. J. Surg., 5: 526-534, 1928.

2. "Genito-urinary Fistula in the Female, with an Appreciation of Sims and His Work." Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. (Sect.: Obst. and Gynec.), 22: 1-18, 1928; Am. J. Surg., 7: 143-156, 1929.

3. "J. Marion Sims, Surgeon and Humanitarian." Am. J. Surg., 6: 561-565, 1929.

Bobbs, John S.: "Lithotomy of the Gall Bladder." Tr. Indiana State M. Soc., 1868; reprint, Am. Med. Assn., 1905.

Boland, Frank: "The First Anesthetic; Story of Crawford W. Long." University of Georgia Press, 1949, and personal communication.

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Editorial, 16: 97, 1875.

Bowen, C. D.: Yankee from Olympus. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1944.

Bozeman, Nathan:

1. "Remarks on Vesico-vaginal Fistula, with an Account of a New Mode of Suture." Louisville Rev., 1: 75-103, 338-341, 1856. Also Montgomery, Barrett and Wimbish, 1856.

2. Letter to T. G. Richardson. North. Am. Med.-Chi. Rev., 2 1150, 1858.

3. "Urethro-vaginal, Vesico-vaginal, and Recto-vaginal Fistules." New Orleans M. and S. Jour., 17: 42-49, 180-199, 327-356, 1860.

4. "Advantages of a Supporting and Confining Apparatus." New York M. J., 8: 484-507, 1869.

5. "Vesico-vaginal Fistules: Comparative Analysis of Different Surgical Methods." Am. J. Obst., 3 339-353, 1871-

6. "The Clamp Suture and the Range of Its Applicability." Tr. Am. Gynec. Soc., 9 339-397, 1884.

7. "Complications of Urinary and Fecal Fistulae in Women." Tr. Internat. M. Cong., Washington, : 514-558, 1887-

8. "Vesico-vaginal Fistules." Tr. Am. Gynec. Soc., 8: 1884.

British Medical Journal. Editorial and obituary notice on Sims. : 995-996, 1883.

Brunson, S.: "Biography of J. Marion Sims." J. South Carolina M. A., 22: 174-175, 1926.

Buck, Gurdon: "A Case of Successful Operations for Vesico-vaginal Fistula." New York M. Times, 4: 1-4, 1854.

Butterfield, Roger: The American Past. New York, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1947.

 

Caldwell, W. S.: Vienna correspondence. Chicago M. J. and Exam., Sept., 1878. Also abst., Boston M. and S. J., Oct., 1878.

Carpenter, W. M.: "In Memoriam, J. Marion Sims." Tr. M. Soc. New York, 400-405, 1884. Also New York, Stettiner, 1886.

Charity Hospital, Paris: Certificate of completion of surgical studies issued to Granville Sims, March 1, 1863. In Southern Historical Collection.

Clapp, Margaret: Forgotten First Citizen-John Bigelow. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1947.

Clark, O.: "The United States in Medicine." Brasil-medico, 36: 308-309 1922.

Cleveland, C.: "Commemorative Address." Am. J. Obst., 67: 954-955 1913.

Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, reviews. Lancet, 1: 125-126, 1866; M. Times and Gaz., 1:133, 148-151 1866.

Coan, Titus M.: Obituary of Sims. Harper's Weekly, 27: 747, 1883.

Coe, H. C.:

1. See Goffe.

2. Quoted by G. G. Ward, 2.

Columbia Encyclopedia. New York, Columbia University Press, 1938.

Cutter, I. S.: "Landmarks in Surgical Progress: J. Marion Sims and Vesicovaginal Fistula." Internat. Abst. Surg., 47: 173-175 1928.

 

Dabney, M. Y.: "James Marion Sims, Father of Modern Gynecology." J. M. A. Alabama, April 1940.

Da Costa, J. C.: "Crawford W. Long." In Papers and Speeches, Philadelphia W. B. Saunders Co., 1931.

Dictionary of American Biography. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

Dictionary of American Medical Biography. New York, Appletofl 1928.

Dictionary of National Biography. London, Smith, Elder, 1895.

 

Eberlein, H. D.: "When Society First Took a Bath." Pennsylvania Mag., 67: 1, 1943.

Edwards, L. B.:

1. Editorials, Virginia M. Monthly, April, May, June, 1877.

2. Obituary of Sims. Virginia M. Monthly, 10: 631-638 1883-84.

Emmet, Thomas Addis:

1. Vesico-vaginal Fistula. New York, Wood, 1868.

2. "Chronic Cystitis in the Female." Am. Pract., 5: 65-92, 1872.

3. "Laceration of the Cervix Uteri." Am. J. Obst., 7: 442-456, 1874-75.

4. "The Necessity for Early Delivery." Tr. Am. Gynec. Soc., 3: 114-134, 1878.

5. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology. Philadelphia, Lea, 1879.

6. "A Memoir of Dr. J. Marion Sims." New York M. J., 39: 1-5, 1884. Also New York, Appletofl 1884.

7. "Reminiscences of the Founders of the Woman's Hospital Association." New York J. Obst. and Gynec., 3: 353-369, 1893; Am. Gynec. and Obst. J., April 1899.

8. "Personal Reminiscences Associated with the Progress of Gynecology." Am. Gynec. and Obst. J., May-June, 1900.

9. Incidents of My Life. New York, G. B. Putnam's Sons, 1911.

------: with Peaslee and Thomas. See Peaslee.

Encyclopedia Americana. New York, Americana Corp., 1946.

"Eponyms, James Marion Sims." Am. J. Surg., 8 (suppl.): 498-49g, 1930. Also in Abdominal Cavity and Peritoneum, New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1930, pp. 82-83.

Erich, A. F.: "A New Modification of Sims' Speculum." New York M. J., 8: 5, 1869.

 

Federal Writers' Project: New York City Guide. New York, Random House, 1939.

Flack, J. H.:

1. "Lawson Tait," Vicary Lectures, Ann. Roy. Coll. Surgeons, England, April, 1948.

2. Lawson Tait. London, Heinemann, 1948.

Flexner, J. T.: Doctors on Horseback. New York, The Viking Press, 1937.

Francis, John W.: Address at fifth annual meeting of Woman's Hospital, January 21, 1860. New York, Woman's Hospital, Fifth Annual Report.

 

Gaillard, E. S.:

1. "Life of J. Marion Sims, M.D." Richmond and Louisville M. J., 1: 92-95, 1873.

2. Editorial. Gaillard's M. J., 36: 603-604, 1883.

3. Obituary of Sims. Gaillard's M. J., 37: 1-9, 1884.

Garnett, A. Y. P.: Memoir of Sims. Appendix, Sims's The Story of My Life.

Garrison, F. H.: An Introduction to the History of Medicine. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Co., 1929.

Godlee, Sir Rickman John: Lord Lister, 3rd ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 1924.

Goffe, J. R.; G. G. Ward; R. M. Rawls; and H. C. Coe: Reports on the Scientific Work of the Surgical Staff of the Woman's Hospital. New York, Woman's Hospital, 1918-22.

Gould, George M.: The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, a History. New York, Lewis, 1904.

Gream, G. T.: "Dilatation or Division of the Cervix Uteri." Lancet, 1:381, 1865.

Gregory, Alice: Personal communications.

Gross, S. D.:

1. Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons. Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston, 1861.

2. Autobiography. Philadelphia, Barrie, pp. 146-154, 221, 1887.

Guthrie, Douglas: A History of Medicine. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1946.

 

Hamilton, Marie: Letter to Dr. J. M. Sims, May 5, 1863. In Southern Historical Collection.

Harper's Weekly. "J. Marion Sims, M.D." 20 517-518, 1876.

Harris, Seale:

1. "James Marion Sims, the Father of Modern Gynecology." South. Surgeon, 6: 35-52, 1937.

2. "Marion Sims and Other Nineteenth Century Pioneers." J. M. A. Alabama, Oct., Nov., and Dec., 1945.

3. Personal recollections of his father, Dr. Charles Hooks Harris.

Hartigan, J. F.: "Trismus Nascentium." Am. J. M. Sc., 87: 84-122, 1884.

Hayward, George:

1. "Case of Vesico-vaginal Fistula, Successfully Treated by an Operation." Ibid., 24: 283-288, 1839.

2. "Cases of Vesico-vaginal Fistula Treated by Operation." Boston M. and S. J., 44: 209-224, 1851.

Hazard, W.: "Editorial Interview with Dr. J. Marion Sims: A Full Exposition of the Points in the Controversy between Drs. Peaslee, Emmet and Thomas and Dr. Sims." St. Louis Clin. Rec., 4 153-172, 1877.

de Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lillie: In the Courts of Memory. New York, Harper & Bros., 1912, pp. 125, 240.

"Heroes of Medicine." Practitioner (London), 60: 51-54, 1898.

Holmes, O. W.: "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever." New England Quart. J. Med. and Surg., April, 1843.

Hull, A. L.: Ann. Athens, Georgia, p. 374.

Hunter, Anna F.: "Kay Street During My Life." Bull. Newport Hist. Soc., 8-9, April, 1932.

 

International Congress of Medicine: Proceedings, Geneva, 1877, and London, 1881.

 

Johnson, J. T.: Memoir of Sims. Appendix, Sims's The Story of My Life.

Johnston, W. E.: Letter to Dr. H. D. Bulkley, President, New York Academy of Medicine, August 22, 1870. In Southern Historical Collection.

Jones, B. Rush: Remarks welcoming Sims to Montgomery, Alabama, at meeting of Medical and Surgical Society, March 20, 1877. Montgomery Daily Advertiser, March 21, 1877.

Jones, Mrs. Ira B., Jr.: "Historic Lancaster, 1802-1938." Lancaster (S. C.) News, June, 1940.

 

Keen, W. W.: "Cholecystotomy," J. Am. M. Sc., 1883-84.

Keene, F. E., editor: Album of the Fellows of the American Gynecological Society, 1876-1930. Philadelphia, Dornan, 1930.

Kelly, H. A.:

1. Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Co., 1912.

2. Medical Gynecology. New York, Appleton, 1912.

----- and Walter Burrage: Dictionary of American Medical Biography. New York, Appleton, 1928.

King, J. M.: "Sketch of the Life of Dr. J. Marion Sims." J. Tennessee M. A., 1: 361.368, 1921.

Kraus, Rene: Young Lady Randolph, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1943.

 

Lancaster News: March of Progress Edition. Lancaster, South Carolina, March 15, 1940.

Lancet (London). Editorial and obituary on Sims, : 872, 931, 1883.

Leech, Margaret: Reveille in Washington. New York, Harper & Bros., 1941.

Leigh, Southgate: "Marion Sims." Virginia M. Monthly, 56: 502-506, 1929.

Lister, Joseph: The Third Huxley Lecture, delivered before the Medical School of Charing Cross Hospital, October 2, 1900. London, Harrison, 1907, pp. 41-42.

Lowder, W. L.: "Eulogy on J. Marion Sims", Charlotte (N. C.) M. J., 66: 93-101, 1912.

 

MacCormac, William: Notes and Recollections of an Ambulance Surgeon. London, Churchill, 1871.

"McDowell and Sims, American Founders of Gynecology." U. S. Nav. M. Bull., 14 373-379, 1920.

McGuire, Stuart: Personal reminiscences.

Mackey, T. J.: "Introduction," Sims's The Story of My Life.

McKay, W. J. S.: Lawson Tait. New York, Wood, 1922.

McMaster, Jennie: "J. Marion Sims, Father of Gynaecological Surgery." Trained Nurse and Hosp. Rev., 92: 121-127, 1934.

Mahfouz, N. P.: "Urinary and Faecal Fistulae." J. Obst. and Gynaec. Brit. Emp., 45: 405-424, 1938.

Marion-Sims, H.: "Editor's Preface," Sims's The Story of My Life.

Marr, J. P.: "Thumbnail Sketch of James Marion Sims." North Carolina M. J., 8: 447-449, 1947.

Marshall, David: Grand Central. New York, Whittlesey House, 1946.

Martin, A.: "J. Marion Sims. In Piam Memoriam." Monatschr. f. Geburtsch. u. Gynaek., 37: 217-218, 1913.

Means, T. A.: "Reminiscences of J. Marion Sims." Alabama M. and S. Age, 6: 607-616, 1893-94-

Medical Record: Obituary of Sims, 24: 557, 1883.

Medical Society of Virginia: Transactions, 1879. Richmond, Fergusson, 1879.

Meigs, C. D.: "Cure of a Vesico-vaginal Fistula by an Operation by Professor Pancoast." M. Examiner, 7: 650-656, 1851.

Mettauer, J. P.:

1. "Vesico-vaginal Fistula." Boston M. and S. J., 22: 154, 1840.

2. "On Vesico-vaginal Fistula." Am. J. M. Sc., 14: 117-121, 1847.

Mills, Robert:

1. Statistics of South Carolina. Charleston, Hurlbut, 1826.

2. Atlas of the State of South Carolina from Actual Survey. Philadelphia, 1826.

Mittag, J. F. G.: Letter from Lancaster, S. C., to Mrs. John W. Francis of New York, July 23, 1867. In Rare Books Section, Library of New York Academy of Medicine, N. Y.

Moir, Chassar: "J. Marion Sims and the Vesico-vaginal Fistula, Then and Now." Brit. M. J., 2:773, 1940.

Montgomery Daily Advertiser:

1. Reports of Sims's 1877 visit to Alabama, March 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 1877. Also in Appendix, Sims's The Story of My Life.

2. Report of Sims Memorial Meeting, December 8, 1883.

Mundé, Paul F.:

1. "In Memoriam, James Marion Sims." Am. J. Obst., 17: 52-61, 1884.

2. "Dr. J. Marion Sims, the Father of Modern Gynecology." M. Rec., 46: 514-515, 1894.

 

Nevins, Allan: Ordeal of the Union. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.

Newport, R. I., Bits of Medical History. Album in Library of College of Physicians, Philadelphia.

Newton, R. S.: "The Modern Antipope" and "The Reason Why." Editorials, M. Eclectic, 4: 5-6, 45-46, 1877.

New York Academy of Medicine: By-laws.

New York Medical Journal. Obituary of Sims, 38: 550, 1883.

New York Observer. Editorial on Sims's death, Nov. 14, 1883.

New York Pathological Society, report of meeting April 23, 1862. Am. M. Times, 4 334, 1862.

 

Obstetrical Society of London: Transactions, 1861-1883. "Ode to Dr. Marion Sims." M. Times and Gaz., London, i: 216, 1866.

Olshausen, R.: Uber Marion Sims und seine Verdienste um die Chirurgie. Berlin, Hirschwalk, 1897.

 

Packard, F. R.: History of Medicine in the United States. New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1931.

Pallen, M. A.: "Incision and Division of the Cervix Uteri for Dysmenorrhea and Sterility." Am. J. Obst., 10: 364-389, 1877.

Pancoast, Joseph: "On the Cure of Vesico-vaginal Fistula." M. Examiner, 3 272, 1847.

Parkhurst, C. H.: In Memoriam, J. Marion Sims. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884.

Peaslee, E. R.: "Incision and Discission of the Cervix Uteri." Tr. New York Acad. Med.; New York, Appleton, 1876.

Peaslee, E. R.; T. A. Emmet; and T. G. Thomas: To the Medical Profession: Statements Respecting the Separation of Dr. J. Marion Sims from the Woman's Hospital. New York, Kent, 1877.

----- ; -----; and -----: Reply to Dr. J. Marion Sims' Pamphlet Entitled "The Woman's Hospital in 1874." New York, Trow, 1877.

"Peritoneal Surgery, Recent Progress of." Report of meeting of N. Y. Academy of Medicine, Oct. 6, 1881. M. Rec., 20: 467-471, 1881; M. Gaz., 8: 429-430, 1881.

Petit, Jean Louis: Oeuvres Complètes. Limoges, Bibliothèque Chirurgicale, 1837, p. 445 ff. Also in Mémoires de l'Académie de Chirurgie, 1: '55.

Phaneuf, L. E.: "Genital Fistulas in Women. Life of J. Marion Sims." Am. J. Surg., 64: 3-27, 1944.

Power, D'Arcy: A Mirror for Surgeons. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939, pp. 213-230.

 

Ramsay, C. G.: Letter from Havana to Dr. J. M. Sims, October 28, 1864. In Southern Historical Collection.

Rawls, R. M. See Goffe.

Ricci, J. V.: One Hundred Years of Gynaecology. Philadelphia, The Blakiston Co., 1945.

Robinson, Victor: The Story of Medicine. New York, Boni, 1931, pp. 479-483.

Royster, H. A.: "James Marion Sims." In "Master Surgeons of America" series, Surg., Gynec., and Obst., 35: 237-239, 1922. Also in Medical Morals and Manners, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1937, pp. 247-251.

Rucker, Pierce: "Dr. John Peter Mettauer." Ann. M. Hist., 10: 36-46, 1938.

 

Savage, Henry: Surgery, Surgical Pathology, and Surgical Anatomy of the Female Pelvic Organs in a Series of Colored Plates Taken from Nature, London, Churchill, 1876, pp. 73-75.

Scharf and Westcott: History of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Evarts, 1884.

Schuppert, M.: "A Review of President Garfield's Case." Gaillard's M. J., 32: 494-517, 188,.

Seebach, Count: Correspondence with Sims, June-September, 1866. In Southern Historical Collection.

Seelye, S. D.: Address at Sims Memorial Meeting of Montgomery (Ala.) Medical and Surgical Society. Montgomery Daily Advertiser, Dec. 8, 1883.

Shrady, George F.:

1. "The Recent Progress of Peritoneal Surgery." Editorial, M. Rec., 20 466-467, 1881.

2. "J. Marion Sims, Surgeon and Philanthropist." M. Rec., 513-514, 1894. Editorial, Ibid., 528.

Sigerist, Henry E.: American Medicine. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1934.

Simpson, Eve B.: Sir James Y. Simpson. Edinburgh, Olyphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, 1896.

Simpson, James Y.:

1. "On Vesico-vaginal Fistula." M. Times and Gaz., 18: 1-3, 25-30, 1859.

2. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women. Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea, 1863.

Sims, Granville: Letters to his father, July 19 and 21, 1864. In Southern Historical Collection.

Sims, Harry. See Marion-Sims, H.

Sims, Henry Upson: The Genealogy of the Sims Family. Birmingham, Alabama, privately printed, 1940.

Sims, J. Marion, For works see Bibliography I.

"Sims, James Marion: Eponyms." Am. J. Surg., 8 (suppl.): 498-499, 1930. Also in Abdominal Cavity and Peritoneum, New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1930, pp. 82-83.

Sims Memorial in Alabama. J. M. A. Alabama, April, 1940.

Sims Memorial in New York. M. Rec., Dec., 1883 ff.; 46: 513-515, 528, 1894. Also Am. J. Obst., 30 712-720, 1894. Also Illust. American, 16: 481-484, 1894. Also New York Times, Feb. 23 and Oct. 21, 1934. Also Bull. New York Acad. Med., 10: 718-724, 1934.

Sims Memorial Unveiled May 10, 1929, in Columbia, S. C. Columbia, 1929.

"Sims Position." Am. J. Surg., 13: 578, 1931.

"Sims on Silver Sutures." Editorial review, North Am. Med.-Chi. Rev., 2: 635-653, 1858.

"Sims and the Southern Gynecologists." Editorial, J. A. M. A., 60: 285, 1913.

Souchon, Edmond:

1. "Reminiscences of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Paris." M. Rec., 46: 705-708, 1894. Also Texas M. J., 10: 399-405, 1894-95. Also Tr. South. S. and Gynec. A., 7: 27-38, 1894. Also New York, Trow, 1894.

2. "Places Rendered Famous by Dr. J. Marion Sims in Montgomery, Alabama." New Orleans M. and S. J., 23: 455-460, 1895-96.

Southern Historical Collection (Sims and Jones family papers), University Library, Chapel Hill, N. C.

"Statue to a Surgeon, A." Illust. American, 16: 481-484, 1894.

Stone, Richard: Biographies of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons. Indianapolis, Carlon, 1894.

Stuart, Henri L.:

1. "Biographical Sketch of J. Marion Sims, M.D." Virginia M. Monthly, : 731-743, 1876.

2. "Biographical Sketch of J. Marion Sims, M.D." M. Eclectic, : 46-64, 1877. 3. "Biographical Sketch of J. Marion Sims, M.D." Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, New York, Johnson, 1877.

"Stuart, Henri L." Obituary, New York Tribune, Sept. 18, 1879.

 

Tait, Lawson:

1. Diseases of Women. London, Williams and Norgate, 1877 et seq.

2. "Recent Advances in Surgery." Tr. Seventh Internat. Cong. Med., London, 1881.

Thomas, T. Gaillard:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women. Philadelphia, Lea, 1868.

2. Woman's Hospital Anniversary Address, 1871. Archives, Woman's Hospital, N. Y.

3. "Obstetrics and Gynecology," in A Century of American Medicine. Philadelphia, Lea, 1876.

----- with Peaslee and Emmet. See Peaslee.

Thorns, Herbert: Classical Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springfield (Ill.), Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1935.

Tilton, E. M.: Amiable Autocrat. A Biography of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York, Henry Schuman, Inc., 1947.

Toner, J. M.: "Biography of Dr. J. Marion Sims." Gaillard's M. J., 37: 127-134, 1884. Also in Appendix, Sims's The Story of My Life.

Truax, Rhoda: Joseph Lister. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1944.

 

Van de Warker, E.: "J. Marion Sims." Tr. Am. Gynec. Soc., 9 398-403, 1884.

Van Ingen, Philip: The New York Academy of Medicine: Its First Hundred Years.. New York, Columbia University Press, 1948.

Velpeau, Alfred: Operative Surgery. Paris, 1832.

Virginia, Medical Society of: Transactions, 1879. Richmond, Fergusson, 1879.

 

Wailer, Susie Theresa Jones: Personal communications.

Ward, George Gray:

1. See Goffe.

2. "Marion Sims and the Origin of Modern Gynecology." Bull. New York Acad. Med., 12: 93-104, 1936.

Ward, W. D.: "The Life and Work of J. Marion Sims." Am. J. Obst., 54: 192-203, 1906.

Watson, John F.: Annals of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Stuart, 1898.

Weil, C. K.: "Dr. J. Marion Sims." South. M. J., 23: 670-671, 1933.

Wellman, Rita: Eugénie. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

Wells, T. Spencer: "Dr. M. Sims on Hysterotomy." Lancet, 1: 578, 1865.

Werner, M. R.: Barnum. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1923.

Wheeler, H. S., City Clerk of Newport, R. I.: Personal communication, Nov. 21, 1947.

Wilson, T. G.: Victorian Doctor; the Life of Sir William Wilde. London, Methuen, 1942.

Witherspoon, G. M.: Obituary of Sims. Lancaster (S. C.) Rev., Nov., 1883.

Witherspoon, J. H. ("Long Grabs"): Letters to Lancaster Ledger, July- August, 1859.

Witherspoon, Mary D.: Family records. (Furnished by Mrs. B. C. Hough, Jr., Lancaster, S. C.)

Woman's Hospital, New York:

1. Reports of Sims's Stuyvesant Institute lecture urging founding of hospital. New York Times, May 19, 1854. Am. M. Monthly, 1: 479-480, 1854-

2. First anniversary meeting. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Feb. 23, 1856, pp. 174-176.

3. Constitution, in First Annual Report, 1856.

4. Annual reports and other archives, 1856-1884.

5. Memorial to the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York for Founding a State Woman's Hospital. New York, Miller and Holman, 1857.

6. An Act to Found a State Woman's Hospital for the State of New York. New York, Miller, 1857.

7. "Woman's Hospital's Nineteenth Anniversary Meeting." News report, New York Republic, Nov. 20, 1874.

Wood, James R.: Discussion of Sims's paper on "Peritoneal Surgery." M. Gaz., 8: 430, 1881.

Wyeth, John Allan:

1. "J. Marion Sims and His Work." M. Rec., 48: 694-700, 1895. Also Tr. South. S. and Gynec. A., 8: 9-39, 1895.

2. With Sabre and Scalpel. New York, Harper & Bros., 1914.

Wyeth, Marion Sims: Data on Sims family and personal communications.

Wylie, W. Gill: "Memorial Sketch of Sims." New York M. J., 39: 405-408, 1884.

 

CHAPTER SOURCES

All references are to preceding Bibliography. Abbreviations:

D.A.B.---Dictionary of American Biography;
D.A.M.B.---Dictionary of American Medical Biography;
D.N.B.---Dictionary of National Biography;
S.H.C.---Southern Historical Collection;
W.H.---Woman's Hospital.

INTRODUCTION. Lancet; Arnold; Bozeman; Coan. (These citations are for specific references only. Other sources are too diffuse to permit listing.)

CHAPTER 1. Sims 77; H. U. Sims; Mills i1 2; S.H.C.; M. S. Wyeth; Lancaster News; M. D. Witherspoon; Mrs. I. B. Jones, Jr. Also (for John Sims's war service) a letter dated Feb. 6, 1941, from Adjutant General's Office, War Department, Washington, D. C., to Miss Nora M. Davis, World War Memorial, Columbia, S. C.

CHAPTER 2. Sims 77; D.A.B.; Butterfield.

CHAPTER 3. Sims 77; S.H.C.

CHAPTER 4. Sims 77; D.A.B.; D.A.M.B.; Sigerist; Watson; Scharf and Westcott; Gould; Gross 1; Means; Eberlein.

CHAPTER 5. Sims 77; Means; M. D. Witherspoon; Lancaster News; D.A.B.

CHAPTER 6. Sims s, 77; Encyclopedia Americana; Lancaster News; Tilton; D.A.M.B.

CHAPTER 7. Sims s, 77; Encyclopedia Americana; Butterfield; D.A.B.; S.H.C.

CHAPTER 8. Sims 8, 48, 77; M. S. Wyeth; D.A.M.B.; Baldwin 1, ; B. R. Jones; Nevins; Waller.

CHAPTER 9. Sims 2, 4, 6, 7, 77; Montgomery Advertiser 1; Baldwin ; Waller; D.A.B.; Guthrie.

CHAPTER 10. Sims 9, 77; Hayward i; Mettauer 1, ; Holmes; Emmet 5; D. A. M. B.; Garrison; Gross 2.

CHAPTER 11. Sims , 8, , 16, 71, 77; Hartigan; M. S. Wyeth; M. D. Witherspoon; Nevins; Sigerist; D.A.M.B.; Baldwin ; Mettauer 1, 2; Emmet , 8; Bissell 1; Rucker; J. Y. Simpson 1.

CHAPTER 12. Sims 10, ii, 16, 29, 77; Bozeman 6; D.A.M.B.; M. S. Wyeth; Werner; Phaneuf; Meigs. Also letter from Sims to H. V. Wooten, Jan. 23, 1850 (in Alabama State Department of Archives).

CHAPTER 13. Sims 9, 16,48,77; Nevins; D.A.M.B.; Meigs; Bozeman 6. Also announcement of Sims-Bozeman partnership in Montgomery Advertiser and Gazette, Nov. 14, 1854.

CHAPTER 14. Sims 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 77; Rucker; D.A.M.B.; Federal Writers' Project; Granville Sims; Emmet 6, 7,; M. S. Wyeth; Nevins; M. D. Witherspoon; Baldwin ; Seelye; Buck; Brit. M. J.; Bissell ; Velpeau, Baker. Also items in New York M. Times, 3 104, 107, 1853.

CHAPTER 15. Sims 13, 77; Stuart obituary; Hazard; W.H. 1; Emmet 6; DAB.; D.A.M.B.

CHAPTER 16. Sims 13, 14, 33, 77; M. S. Wyeth; Nevins; Clapp; D.A.M.B.; Emmet 6; Barker i; Appleton's; D.A.B.; Goffe; W.H. 1, 4. Also news item, "Dr. Marion Sims' Sons' Names," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Feb. 25, 1881.

CHAPTER 17. Sims 33, 39, 77; "A Statue to a Surgeon"; W.H. 3, 4; Goffe; G. G. Ward 1; Emmet 7, 8, ; Truax; Bissell 2; Harris ; Savage.

CHAPTER 18. Sims 77; Hazard; Emmet 7, 9; Kelly ; D.A.M.B.; D.A.B.; W.H. 4, 5, 6.

CHAPTER 19. Sims 15, 19, 29, 32, 42, 49; W.H. 4, 6; Emmet 7, 8; Peaslee; Ricci.

CHAPTER 20. Sims 13, 77; M. S. Wyeth; Kraus; Emmet 6; J. H. Witherspoon; D.A.B.; W.H. 4. Also news items, New York Daily News, May 18, 1857, and Lancaster (S. C.) Ledger, May 20, 1857.

CHAPTER 21. Sims 16; Godlee.

CHAPTER 22. Sims 16; Garrison; Emmet 1, 5; W.H. 2, 4 (1856 case records); D.A.M.B.; Ricci; Bozeman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; J. Y. Simpson i; Baldwin ; Van de Warker; "Sims on Silver Sutures." Also editorial item, Am. M. Gaz., : 375, 1856.

CHAPTER 23. W.H. 4; Granville Sims; Emmet 9; Hazard; DAB.; D.A.M.B.; Columbia.

CHAPTER 24. Sims 18, 33, 40, 77 D.A.M.B. Francis; M. S. Wyeth; Wilson; Guthrie; E. B. Simpson; J. Y. Simpson ; Lister; Barker ; Brit. Med. Jour.; Obstetrical Society of London; Robinson; Clapp; Wellman; D.N.B.; D.A.B.; Souchon 1.

CHAPTER 25. Sims 18, 19, 29, 35, 77 Granville Sims; Coan; Parkhurst; Mundé i; Brit. M. J.; Kraus; Ricci; Clapp; D.A.B.; W.H. ; Hazard; Emmet 8, ; D.A.M.B.; Gregory. Also letter from Sims to his daughter Florence, Dec., 1861 (in data furnished by M. S. Wyeth); and news item, "Dr. Marion Sims at Home Again," New York Times, Jan. 14, 1862.

CHAPTER 26. Sims 29, 33, 69, 77; M. S. Wyeth; Kraus; Wellman; Gregory; Clapp; Souchon 1; D.A.B.; D.N.B.; Hamilton; Van de Warker; W.H. . Also letter from French Ministry of Public Instruction to Duchess of Hamilton, June 23, 1863 (in S.H.C.); and news item, "Dr. Marion Sims at Home Again," New York Times, Jan. 14, 1862.

CHAPTER 27. Sims 18, 38; Granville Sims; D.A.M.B.; Charity Hospital; M. S. Wyeth; Clapp; Leech; Gregory; Wellman; Souchon 1; Ramsay. Also news item, "Merited Distinction," Lancet, Nov. 26, 1864.

CHAPTER 28. Sims 22, 23, 25, 29, 32; Brit. M. J.; Obstetrical Society of London; Wells; Gream; Bennet; "Ode"; Emmet 6; Mundé s, 2; Thomas, ; Pallen; Van de Warker.

CHAPTER 29. Sims 29, 30, 31, 77 Lancaster News; G. M. Witherspoon; Mittag; Souchon 1; D.A.B.; Clapp; Kraus; de Hegermann-Lindencrone; Guthrie; Kelly 1; W.H. 4; Seebach; Columbia; Stuart obituary; Stuart ; Keene. Also diploma from Ministry of the Interior, Kingdom of Italy, documenting Sims's designation as Cavalier of the Order of St. Maurice of Lazzaro (in S.H.C.).

CHAPTER 30. Sims 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 49, 65; Hazard; Emmet , 2 5, 7, 9; D.A.M.B.; W.H. 4; Pallen; Parkhurst; J. A. Wyeth 1; Mundé 1; Peaslee; Bozeman ; Baldwin ; Van de Warker; Atkinson; Columbia; Van Ingen; N. Y. Acad. Med.; Johnston. Also letters from Sims to Dr. McDaniel of Alabama (in Alabama State Department Archives) and Dr. J. A. Sparkman of South Carolina (in S.H.C.) and bill from Sims to W. J. Brown (in Historical Collection, Library of The Medical College of Virginia, Richmond).

CHAPTER 31. Sims 36, 37, 39; MacCormac; Stuart 1; Columbia; Wellman; Kraus; Wailer; Lister; Truax; D.N.B.; Gregory; M. S. Wyeth. Also invoice of antiseptic supplies for Sims ordered by Sir Joseph Lister from Glasgow Apothecaries Co., Aug. 2, 1870 (in S.H.C.), and personal communication, Dr. Sellers, University of Alabama.

CHAPTER 32. Sims 39, 41; W.H. 4; Emmet , ; D.A.M.B.; Goffe; Ward, Rawls, and Coe; Hazard; Thomas 2, ; Marshall; Hunter; Wheeler; Newport; Kraus. Also letter from Sims to Dr. W. W. Keen of Philadelphia, April 23, 1872 (in Library of College of Physicians, Philadelphia).

CHAPTER 33. Sims 50, 53; Peaslee, Emmet, and Thomas 1, 2; Emmet 9; Hazard; W.H. 4, 7; Van de Warker; Wylie; Gross 2; Bissell 3; Anderson; D.A.B.; D.A.M.B.

CHAPTER 34. Sims 30, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 65, 66; Boston M. and S. J.; Baldwin ; New York Academy of Medicine; Gross ; J. A. Wyeth 1; M. S. Wyeth; Wylie; D.A.M.B.; Stuart obituary; Stuart ; Flexner; Da Costa; Boland; Edwards 1, 2. Also account of A.M.A. convention, Harper's Weekly, June 24, 1876.

CHAPTER 35. Sims 48, 50; G. M. Witherspoon; Lancaster News; Mackey; M. D. Witherspoon; Encyclopedia Americana; Montgomery Advertiser 1; Baldwin 1; Means; Wailer; D.A.B.; Stuart 1, 2; Newton; D.A.M.B.; Wylie; Peaslee, Emmet, and Thomas 1, 2; A.M.A.; Hazard; W.H. 4; J. A. Wyeth 1. Also news item in Columbia (S. C.) Register, Feb. 28, 1877.

CHAPTER 36. Sims 52, 6, 67, 68; International Congress of Medicine, 1877; New York Observer; Caldwell; Barker 2; Goffe; D.A.M.B., D.N.B.; Lister; Wylie; Carpenter; Gross a; Gregory; J. A. Wyeth 1; Stuart obituary; Hull; W.H. 4; Bozeman 6, 7; Emmet 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9; American Gynecological Society; Mundé 1; Medical Society of Virginia; McGuire; Boston M. and S. J.; Coe 2. Also news note, Virginia M. Monthly, Nov., 1877; letters from Sims to Dr. John L. Atlee, 1879 (in Library of College of Physicians, Philadelphia); and accounts of Sims's Boston visit in Boston Advertiser, Jan. 24, i88o, and Virginia M. Monthly, p, 917, 1879-80.

CHAPTER 37. Sims 16, 72, 73, 77; Emmet 6; Wylie; J. A. Wyeth 1, 2; D.A.M.B.; Edwards a; Mackey; Hartigan; Gross a; W.H. 4. Also news item on Sims's Charleston Visit, Montgomery Daily Advertiser, Feb. 11, 1881, "Dr. Sims' Sons' Names," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Feb. 25, 1881; "Interview with Dr. Sims," New York Tribune, Sept. 17, 188 1; and news item on Sims bust at Jefferson Medical College, M. Rec., May, 1880.

CHAPTER 38. Sims 19, 8, 72; McKay; Flack 1, ; Petit; Bobbs; Tait 1; Keen. Also Buck, Reference Handbook of Medical Sciences, 11: 127; and Ochsner, in Kelley and Nobley, Gynec. and Abdominal Surg., 11; 277, 1862.

CHAPTER 39. Sims 72, 77; International Congress of Medicine, 1881; Wylie; J. A. Wyeth 1; Mundé 2; Gross 2; Olshausen. Also report of proceedings of New York Academy of Medicine and Editorial New York M. Rec., 1881.

CHAPTER 40. Sims 65, 72; W.H. (1883); Gross a; Baldwin ; Wylie; J. A. Wyeth 1; M. Rec.; Brit. M. J.; Mackey; Toner; Johnson; H. Marion-Sims; Bissell 3; Mundé 1; Wood; D.N.B. Also letters of Sims to John M. Parsons, Sept., 1883 (in Library of New York Academy of Medicine) and to Dr. John Ashhurst, Jr, of Philadelphia, May 5, 1880 (in Library of College of Physicians, Philadelphia); original manuscript of The Story of My Life (in Alabama State Department of Archives); and letter from Sims's sister, Mrs. Abercrombie, to Mrs. Sims, Nov., 1883 (in S.H.C.).

POSTMORTEMS. M. Rec., Nov., 1883; J.A.M.A., Obituary, 1883; Gaillard ; Gross 2; New England M. S. J., Dec., 1883; Parkhurst; Henry Churchill Semple, Am. Med., 8: 639-646, 1923; Emmet 6; J.A.M.A., Nov., 1883; Boston M. and S. J., Obituary, Nov., 1883; Brit. M. J., Nov., 1883; G. F. Shrady, "J. Marion Sims," M. Rec., Nov., 1883; Mundé 2; Sims 77; Exercises at laying of cornerstone New York Cancer Hospital, Library of New York Academy of Medicine; Monthly Bull, of Memorial Hospital, N. Y.; review of early history of New York Cancer Hospital, Hayes Martin; Toner; Nathan Bozeman, Tr. Am. Gyn. Assn., 1884; Wellman; Ninety-second Annual Report, Woman's Hospital, 1948; Ricci; Emmet ; Van de Warker; Howard A. Kelly, Operative Gynecology; Kelly and Burnham, Diseases of Female Kidney, Ureters and Bladder; M. Y. Dabney, personal communication; W. D. Ward, "The Life Work of Marion Sims," Am. J. Obst., N. Y., 54: 192-203, 1906; T. G. Thomas, Practice of Gynecology, Lea, Philadelphia, 1869.


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