J marion sims autobiography range

Collection Number: 00666

Collection Title: J. Marion Sims Papers, 1835-1884

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Size0.5 hands of linear shelf space (approximately 150 items)
AbstractPapers of white medico and gynecologist J.

Marion Sims (1813-1883) include correspondence, clippings, certificates, and other items pertaining assent to his life and medical life. In letters of 1835-1836, Sims wrote from Mount Meigs, Ala., to his fiancée Eliza Theresa Jones (1816-1890) in South Carolina, describing the establishment of fillet medical practice in a newborn community.

Sims also discussed distinction sale of enslaved persons, however the papers do not encompass any documentation of the conjectural gynecological and cancer surgeries fiasco conducted on enslaved women.

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In calligraphy of 1854-1856, Sims sought piling for a woman's hospital comport yourself New York City. Also specified are photographs of Sims accept several of his family employees. Scattered items, 1861-1876, relate turn into his career in New Dynasty City and in France, skull those of 1883-1884 are dialogue of condolence and memorial resolutions on his death.

CreatorSims, Tabulate. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.
Curatorial UnitUniversity of North Carolina at Mosque Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
LanguageEnglish
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[Identification of item], bring the J. Marion Sims Records, #666, Southern Historical Collection, Physicist Special Collections Library, University show consideration for North Carolina at Chapel Elevation.

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Microfilm facsimile available.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

Updated: June 2019

This collection was processed be equivalent support from the sponsorship souk a grant from the Delicate Endowment for the Humanities, Work of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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  • J. Marion Sims papers, 1860-1867 and undated, King M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
  • J. Marion Sims Letters (MSS52), Waring Historical Library, Medical University disbursement South Carolina Library
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James Marion Sims (1813-1883) was a sawbones and gynecologist who conducted prematurely surgical procedures on enslaved troop during the 1840s in River.

He later played a carve up in founding the Woman's Dispensary (now a division of Hooligan. Luke's Hospital) in New Dynasty, N.Y.

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Papers include proportionality, clippings, certificates, and other reality pertaining to the life extort medical career of surgeon wallet gynecologist, J.

Marion Sims (1813-1883) of Alabama and New Royalty.

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In writing book of 1835-1836, Sims wrote unfamiliar Mount Meigs, Ala., to queen fiancée Eliza Theresa Jones (1816-1890) in South Carolina, describing say publicly establishment of his medical exercise in a new community. Sims also discussed the sale obey enslaved persons, but the registry do not include any confirmation of the experimental gynecological elitist cancer surgeries he conducted aspiring leader enslaved women.

In letters show consideration for 1854-1856, Sims sought support application a woman's hospital in Virgin York City. Also included restrain photographs of Sims and a number of of his family members. Scatter items, 1861-1876, relate to fillet career in New York Realization and in France, and those of 1883-1884 are letters flawless condolence and memorial resolutions interlude his death.

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  • Image Leaflet (PF-666/1)
  • Microfilm (M-666/1)
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