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Letter to General Waddy Thompson, 1859, page 1

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Title	Letter to General Waddy Thompson, 1859
Creator	Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883
Date	1859
Subject.LCSH	Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883;Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868
Subject.MeSH	Gynecology--history Gynecologic Surgical Procedures--history Ovarian Cysts--therapy Ovarian Diseases--therapy Uterine Diseases--therapy Women's Health--history Genital Diseases, Female--history
Description	Letter from J. Marion Sims to General Waddy Thompson, dated November 25, 1859.
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 General Waddy Thompson, 1859, page 1
Source	MSS 52.002a
Subject.LCSH	Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883;Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868
Subject.MeSH	Gynecology--history Gynecologic Surgical Procedures--history Ovarian Cysts--therapy Ovarian Diseases--therapy Uterine Diseases--therapy Women's Health--history Genital Diseases, Female--history
Identifier	mss052_002a
Transcript	79 Madison Ave. New-York. Nov. 25th, 1859. My Dear Genl.... of the 12th from Florida was rc'd. yesterday. According to my recollection of your sister's case, there is a fibrous tumor in the anterior wall of the uterus. This I would not expect to cure nor is it important, if the excessive flow could be controlled, and to this last I would address remedies. No suggestion that I could make would be of any service to

Letter to General Waddy Thompson, 1859

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