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    to J. Marion Sims. "J. Marion Sims", Encyclopedia of Alabama "Sims, James Marion" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. J. Marion Sims Papers...
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    Marion Sims Wyeth /ˈwaɪ.əθ/ FAIA (February 17, 1889 – February 4, 1982) was an American architect known for his range in styles such as Art Deco, Mediterranean...
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    widely credited to J. Marion Sims and to a lesser extent his trainee and partner Nathan Bozeman, physicians from Montgomery, Alabama. Sims is widely considered...
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    J. Marion Sims is a bronze sculpture depicting the American physician of the same name by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller. The sculpture consists of a nearly...
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    gynaecology, Sims' vaginal speculum is a double-bladed surgical instrument used for examining the vagina and cervix. It was developed by J. Marion Sims out of...
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  • Anarcha Westcott (category J. Marion Sims)
    physician J. Marion Sims, without the use of anesthesia, to treat a combination of vesicovaginal fistula and rectovaginal fistula. Sims's medical experimentation...
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    Vesicovaginal fistula (category J. Marion Sims)
    2011). "The portrayal of J. Marion Sims' controversial surgical legacy". The Journal of Urology. 185 (6): 2424–7. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2011.01.077. PMID 21511295...
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    The Sims position, or left lateral Sims position, named after the gynaecologist J. Marion Sims, is usually used for rectal examination, treatments, enemas...
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  • for their contributions to these fields include Ephraim McDowell and J. Marion Sims. Ephraim McDowell developed a surgical practice in 1795 and performed...
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    speculum was developed by J. Marion Sims, a plantation doctor in Lancaster County, United States. Between 1845 and 1849, Sims performed dozens of surgeries...
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    notable person in these respective professions. J. Marion Sims, a monument of gynecologist J. Marion Sims by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller, is also installed...
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  • Mothers of Gynecology Movement (category J. Marion Sims)
    evaluate a statue of J. Marion Sims in Central Park. During the 90-day evaluation period, author J.C. Hallman's essay about the Sims monument, "Monumental...
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    on Human Radiation Experiments, among others. Throughout the 1840s, J. Marion Sims, who is often referred to as "the father of gynecology," performed surgical...
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  • involved slaves was gynecology under Dr. J. Marion Sims in Montgomery, Alabama between 1845 and 1849. Dr. Sims is known for being a pioneer in the treatment...
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  • who fall in love while caring for the infants. Hema names them Marion (after J. Marion Sims) and Shiva (after the Hindu deity). Ghosh teaches himself surgery...
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  • Medical Apartheid (category J. Marion Sims)
    to the nation’s black physicians in 2008 and the removal of the James Marion Sims statue from Central Park in 2018. Medical Apartheid traces the complex...
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    removed during the night of October 18–19, 2017, and placed in storage. J. Marion Sims, a physician called "the father of modern gynecology", performed experiments...
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  • a federal ban on slave imports was implemented. Physicians such as J Marion Sims started to focus on the existing Black population, attempting to observe...
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    relaxants such as curare allowed for safer applications. American surgeon J. Marion Sims (1813–83) received credit for helping found gynecology, but later was...
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    mother, Florence Nightingale Sims (d.1915), was the daughter of Lancaster County, South Carolina, native J. Marion Sims, a pioneering surgeon who is considered...
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    primarily with the New York Yankees, 1943-1951 J. Marion Sims – controversial founder of gynecology; the J. Marion Sims Foundation is located in Lancaster Elliot...
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    (died 1824), American pastry chef and restaurateur, formerly a slave. J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), physician, founder of gynecology. He performed medical...
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    He also described their infection—skenitis. Skene collaborated with J. Marion Sims, who performed gynecologic exams and surgeries on enslaved African-American...
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    Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12186-8. Mickles, Kiana (October 2017). "Beyond J. Marion Sims: Black Women Have Been Fighting Discrimination in the Medical Industrial...
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    (2011-06-01). "The Portrayal of J. Marion Sims' Controversial Surgical Legacy". Journal of Urology. 185 (6): 2424–2427. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2011.01.077. ISSN 0022-5347...
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  • Thomas M. Logan, 1873–74 Joseph M. Toner, 1874–75 W. K. Bowling, 1875–76 J. Marion Sims, 1876–77 Henry I. Bowditch, 1877–78 T. G. Richardson, 1878–79 Theophilus...
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  • Mothers of Gynecology Monument (category J. Marion Sims)
    who were patients of controversial doctor and "father of gynecology" J. Marion Sims, whose office was nearby. The statues were made from discarded metal...
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    leaf to treat infected wounds. In the 1840s, founder of gynecology J. Marion Sims employed silver wire, which he had a jeweler fashion, as a suture in...
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    century, this was not true of other regions of the nation. Physician J. Marion Sims described the dueling culture in 1830s South Carolina: In the South...
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    Anglo-American Ambulance was led by Confederate American Civil War veteran J. Marion Sims, who was then resident in France, and British surgeon William MacCormac...
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