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* tumutt Snowden Wri quent By Yates Snowden Before the next issue of THE GAMECOCK goes to press, slight and graceful, but tardy, honors shall have been paid to a man who was grad uated from South Carolina College 97 years ago; and who, when he died in 1883, was recognized as the head of his profession, not only in his native State, not in America; North and South, but throughout the world. Dr. J. Marion Sims was born in Lancaster, S. C.; the birth place of Andrew Jackson; July 25, 1813, and was graduated, a Bachelor of Arts, from South Carolina College in 1832. He attended the Medical College in Charleston for a year but was grad uated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1835. In his brief but charming autobiog raphy in the University Library, may be found the story of his truly wonder ful life, too great and eventful even to be summarized here, and of which two or three chapters ought to be republished as a University Bulletin; he tells of his youth as a poor boy in Lancaster, and the system of teach ing there, when flogging took up al most as much of the Dominie's time as teaching. When he came here we read with intense interest his rather harsh criticism of the great "Stormy Petrel" Thomas Cooper, Doctor of Medicine, Laws, and everything else except Di vinity; of the life of the student in the lecture room, dormitory, or cam pus; of the fatal duels between his fellows, and of other customs and habits good and bad, which read so strangely to our ears. In Charleston he must have been an assiduous student for there he certainly recsived one suggestion that was afterward to revolutionize sur gery for all time, yet, apparently, he devoted some time to sociology, al though that entertaining science was not then in any curriculum in Europe or America. The drama attracted him, and no one would have dreamed that joyous night when the young medico, dressed as a girl, went to the theatre in Charleston, under the escort of his dear friend "Dick" Baker, of Sumter, that Marion Sims was to develop by ardent study and experimentation into the greatest gynecologist in the world. Graduating in Medicine in Phila delphia, he returned to Lancaster where he practised his profession, he says without notable success. Thence he removed to Alabama, first at Mount Meigs, and later at Mont gomery, where he ushered in a new era of surgical accomplishments. Dr. Dougal Bissel, distinguished surgeon, (and a graduate of this Uni versity in 1885) tells the story in a brilliant address, of the operation by Dr. Sims upon a Mrs. Merrill of Alabama. The lady had been seri ously injured internallyr by a fall from a horse. Something must be done and done quickly or she would die. Medical and surgical science had never treated such a case. Suddenly there came to his mind a "clear im pression of a suggestion made in a lecture given by Prioleau of the Medi cal College in Charleston." Sims put Prioleau's "plausible theory to the test"; Mrs. Merrill recovered; and from that hour and that operation all womankind on this planet has found relief and safety. Failing health and a desire to make his discoveries known to the world caused Dr. Sims to move to New York in 1853, where he founded the Woman's Hospital, for rich and poor alike; which is in successful and beneficent operation today. He went to Europe in 1881, where he numbered among his friends and patients kings and queens, including the Empress Eugenie of France, to whom he rendered extraordinary ser vice. He organized the Anglo-American Ambulance Corp, ministered to French 'es Elo y About Sims 1870, and was surgeon in chief, at the Battle of Sedan. He returned to the United States, after being courted by the great, re ceiving titles and decorations of the highest order. He was elected presi dent of the American Medical Asso ciation in 1870, and died in active service, beloved and lamented by all November 13, 1882. Dr. Sophie Brunson tells us that, during the Thirties, Dr. Sims "re turned to Lancaster and married Miss Jones with whom he had been in love since he was eleven and she eight. This proved to be an ideally happy match." 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