Silver sutures in surgery : the anniversary discourse, before the New York Academy of Medicine, delivered in the new building of the Historical Society, on the 18th November, 1857 / by J. Marion Sims.

  • Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Silver sutures in surgery : the anniversary discourse, before the New York Academy of Medicine, delivered in the new building of the Historical Society, on the 18th November, 1857 / by J. Marion Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    by an eloquent address from the venerable and learned Dr. Francis. But for Silver Sutures, that noble Charity, the Woman's Hospital, would not have been called into existence.—Do you ask how this is so? Let me glance briefly at its origin. As before remarked, driven by a seemingly in- exorable fate from my Southern home and friends in search of health, repeated observations made during the summers of 1850, 1851, and 1852, showed that I could regain it in this great city— and nowhere else—for whether I crossed over to Brooklyn, sailed up the Sound to the land of steady habits, roamed over the Highlands of the noble Hudson, quaffed the waters of the far-famed Saratoga, loitered by the seaside, or scaled New England's lofty mountains, it was all the same with me—but, whenever I tarried in New York, its pure soft Croton water and bracing air, would invariably banish my dread disease. Thus the law of self- preservation drove me here in spite of sectional prejudice and an innate horror of a large city. Soon, after my arrival, on the 15th of October, 1853, Dr. Mott called, and gave me the first patient I ever had in New York. It was a very bad case of utero- vesico-vaginal fistula, which had been sent to him from Canajoharie. Having read an account of Silver Sutures, he