SIMS, James Marion
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On the treatment of vesico-vaginal fistula.Amer. J. med. Sci., n.s., 23, 59-82, 1852.Original description of Sims’s operation for the treatment of vesicovaginal fistula; also describes “Sims’s position, the knee–chest position. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 677-712. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY › Vesicovaginal Fistula |
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Silver sutures in surgery.New York: S. S. & S. W. Wood, 1858.Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Sepsis / Antisepsis, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY, SURGERY: General |
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Amputation of the cervix uteri.Trans. N.Y. med. Soc., 367-71, 1861.Sims’s method for amputating the cervix. Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY |
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On vaginismus.Trans. obstet. Soc. Lond., (1861), 3, 356-67, 1862.Subjects: OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY |
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Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.London: R. Hardwicke, 1866.A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of Sims’s duck-billed speculum. Also includes important and pioneering work on the treatment of infertility, including analysis of the conditions essential to conception, and record of a successful artificial insemination. American edition, N.Y., 1866. Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY › Infertility, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES, OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY › GYNECOLOGY |
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Remarks on cholecystotomy in dropsy of the gall-bladder.Brit. med. J., 1, 811-15, 1878.Sims’ operation of cholecystotomy. Subjects: HEPATOLOGY › Diseases of the Liver |