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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sims, James Marion 1813-1883 (search)
Sims, James Marion 1813-1883 Surgeon; born in Lancaster county, S. C., Jan. 25, 1813; graduated at the South Carolina College in 1832, and at the Jefferson Medical College in 1835; established a new theory of the origin and nature of trismus nascentium; discovered how to operate for vesicovaginal fistula and invented instruments for the same; called attention to both of these in 1845; settled in New York in 1853 and later obtained a charter to establish the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York, for which New York City gave a site. Dr. Sims was identified with many learned societies in the United States and Europe, and was president of the American Medical Association. He died in New York City, Nov. 13, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ntral America opened; message by President Arthur to the Emperor......Sept. 21, 1883 National convention of colored men—300 delegates from twenty-seven States—meets at Louisville, Ky.......Sept. 24, 1883 Centennial of the disbanding of the Army of the Revolution celebrated at Newburg, N. Y.......Oct. 18, 1883 Lieut.-Gen. Philip H. Sheridan succeeds Gen. W. T. Sherman, retired, in command of United States army......Nov. 1, 1883 Dr. J. Marion Sims, surgeon, born 1813, dies......Nov. 13, 1883 Standard railroad time in the United States goes into effect......Nov. 18, 1883 Forty-eighth Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 3, 1883 President Arthur's third annual message......Dec. 4, 1883 New cantilever bridge opened over the gorge at Niagara Falls......Dec. 20, 1883 President, by proclamation, recommends observance by appropriate exercises of the 100th anniversary of the return by George Washington to the Continental Congress at Annapolis (Dec. 23, 1783) of