With sabre and scalpel - the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon (1914) (14782652093)

Statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, Bryant Park, New York

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Title: With sabre and scalpel : the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon

Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922

Subjects: Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922 Wyeth family Confederate States of America. Army. Morgan's Cavalry Division Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Cavalry, 4th. Company I Soldiers Surgeons Medicine Surgery American Civil War General Surgery

Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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duated from college; he left his South Carolinahome to practise in Alabama on the 13 th; arrived inNew York City on the 13th; and it was on November13, 1883, at fifteen minutes past three oclock that hedied. It is safe to say that Marion Sims attained the highest po-sition ever achieved in the history of our profession. Hisreputation as a surgeon was so world-wide that in anycapital, in any country within the domain of civilization,he could command at any time a lucrative practice. InNew York, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, Rome,Madrid, Lisbon, and St. Petersburg he found himself every-where sought after, not only by the patients he couldbenefit, but by the leading members of his own profes-sion, who were anxious to pay tribute to his wonderfulgenius. From the brilliant triumph of that memorable clinic atLa Charite in 1862, Dr. Sims went forth to the professionalconquest of Europe. The journals of the day heralded hisadvent, and the gates of the capitals of kingdoms were 370

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STATUE OF DR. J. MARION SIMS, BRYANT PARK, NEW YORK WITH SABRE AND SCALPEL thrown open to his coming. From place to piace he jour-neyed, healing the afflicted and teaching others to heal.Kings of the realm of science vied with one another to dohim honor, kings and rulers of nations were proud toconfer upon him the highest decorations in their power.Upon the base of the pedestal which his statue in Bry-ant Park overlooks, the physicians of our time and of alltime may read with encouragement the epitome of hislife. Justly held as the father of gynecology, his genius knewnone of the limitations of specialization, and in my opinionhis most notable contribution to science is his paper onThe Careful Aseptic Invasion of the Peritoneal Cavity,Not Only for the Arrest of Hemorrhage, the Suture of In-testinal Wounds, and the Cleansing of the Peritoneal Cavity,but for all Intra-peritoneal Conditions, read before theNew York Academy of Medicine, October 6, 1881. Itmarked the dawn of an era, and wa

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