J. Marion Sims

J. Marion Sims 1813 1883 Where the love of man is there also is love of the art. Hippocrates

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The first surgeon of the ages in ministry to women treating alike empress and slave

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He founded the science of gynecology ...

Dr. J. Marion Sims

This tablet marks the site of the office and infirmary of

DR. J. MARION SIMS

Here, in 1845, he performed the first closure of a vesico-vaginal fistula with wire suture, using a pewter spoon as speculum. This operation made him famous throughout ...