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
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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.