James Marion Sims

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 444 words | Copyright

James Marion Sims 1813–83, American gynecologist, b. Lancaster co., S.C., M.D. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1835. He practiced in Mt. Meigs, Ala. A surgeon of international repute, he introduced new operations and instruments (including a vaginal speculum) and wrote the important Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery (1866). In 1855 he founded Woman's Hospital in New York City.

Bibliography: See his autobiography (1884).

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