The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 07, 1929, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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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."
The memorial bust will be unveiled
next Friday, May 10, and the oration
will be delivered by the accomplished
James Henry Rice, a graduate of the
Class of 1886.
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