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Letter to Tom Taylor, 1881, page 1

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Title	Letter to Tom Taylor, 1881
Creator	Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883
Date	1881
Subject.LCSH	Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883
Subject.MeSH	Gastrointestinal Diseases--therapy Rectal Diseases--therapy
Description	Letter from J. Marion Sims to Tom Taylor, dated June 1, 1881.
Digital Collection	J. Marion Sims Letters
Website	http://digital.library.musc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/jmsims
Contributing Institution	Waring Historical Library (MUSC)
SC County	Charleston County (S.C.)
Language	English
Rights	Digital image copyright 2009 The Waring Historical Library, MUSC. All rights reserved. For more information, please contact The Waring Historical Library.
Digitization Specifications	600 dpi, Epson GT-15000, Archival files are tiffs.
Date Digital	2009-10
Type	Text
Format	image/jpeg
Media Type	Manuscripts
Note	James Marion Sims was born January 25, 1813, in Hanging Rock near Lancaster, South Carolina. After attending Lancaster schools he graduated from the South Carolina College in 1832. He attended the Medical College of South Carolina for one semester before leaving to complete his medical education at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1855. He briefly returned to Lancaster after graduation but moved to Alabama in October 1835, finally settling in Montgomery. He practiced general medicine for several years before becoming interested in the vesicovaginal fistula caused by the act of childbirth. He made his name as a surgeon by practicing techniques and inventing instruments, including silver wire sutures, aimed at repairing this damage. He moved to New York City, in part for health reasons, and soon established his practice there. He was instrumental in the establishment of the nation's first hospital for women in 1853. In addition to diseases of women, Sims was interested in cancer and worked to establish the New York Cancer Hospital (now the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital). Sims died in New York on November 13, 1883. The following collection has been merged with MSS 52: MSS 136, Letters, 1858-1859 to Waddy Thompson.

Title	Letter to Tom Taylor, 1881, page 1
Source	MSS 52.004a
Subject.LCSH	Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883
Subject.MeSH	Gastrointestinal Diseases--therapy Rectal Diseases--therapy
Identifier	mss052_004a
Transcript	P.S. Write to me care of Dr. Pratt 12 Place Vendome, Paris-France. 267 Madison Ave. N.Y. June 1st, 1881. My dear Tom Taylor, A thousand thanks for your interesting letter which reached me, in due time but now I must beg you to write me another letter the one that I have is Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Now I tell what I want

Letter to Tom Taylor, 1881

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