![]() ![]() Churchill Jones in Lancaster, South Carolina. In 1832, after two years of study at the predecessor of the University of South Carolina, South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society, Sims worked with Dr. : 4–5Īfter his father was elected sheriff of Lancaster County, he sent Sims in 1825 to the newly established Franklin Academy, in Lancaster. Sims later wrote of his early school days there. įor his first 12 years, Sims' family lived in Lancaster Village, north of Hanging Rock Creek, where his father owned a store. His maternal grandfather, Charles Mackey, was taken prisoner by Banastre Tarleton, and would have been hanged, but for the intervention of his wife. His paternal grandfather was one of Marion's men his great-grandfather was with Washington at Braddock's defeat. John Sims, "now of Texas," participated in the War of 1812, being stationed at Charleston. James Marion Sims, who preferred to be called "Marion", was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, the son of John and Mahala (Mackey) Sims. His positive self-presentation has, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, been subject to revision.Ĭhildhood, education, and early career Sims was a voluminous writer and his published reports on his medical experiments, together with his own 471-page autobiography (summarized in an address just after his death ), are the main sources of knowledge about him and his career. ![]() According to Sims, the enslaved black women were "willing" and had no better option. Lewis Wall, and other medical historians. ![]() Sims' practices were defended as consistent with the US in the era in which he lived by physician and anthropologist L. He has been called a "butcher" and compared to Nazi physician Josef Mengele. In the 20th century, this was condemned as an improper use of human experimental subjects and Sims was described as "a prime example of progress in the medical profession made at the expense of a vulnerable population". He operated without anesthesia on enslaved black women, who, like prisoners, could not meaningfully consent because they could not refuse. There are ethical questions raised by how he developed his surgical techniques. Lerner states, "one would be hard pressed to find a more controversial figure in the history of medicine." A statue in his honor, the first statue in the United States in honor of a physician, was erected in 1894 in Bryant Park in New York City, but removed in 2018. He openly boasted that he was the second-wealthiest doctor in the country. He was one of the first American physician to become famous in Europe. In 1876, he was elected President of the American Medical Association. He was one of the most famous and venerated physicians in the country. He was forced out of the hospital he founded because he insisted on treating cancer patients he played a small role in the creation of the nation's first cancer hospital, which opened after his death. Against significant opposition, he established, in New York, the first hospital specifically for women. He is also remembered for inventing Sims speculum, Sims sigmoid catheter, and the Sims position. His most famous work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. James Marion Sims (January 25, 1813 – November 13, 1883) was an American physician in the field of surgery. ![]()
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