SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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, GYNSECOLOGY T AND 1. :fv- Robert Nesbitt, Jr., Chairman Raja W. Abdul-Karim Fathi A. Jishi John H. Hagen Renate N. Chevli Krishna B. Singh Frances V. DeGeorge Richard H. Aubry Samir Beydoun Shawky Badawy Muhammad Naim Jack Rothman Hugh A. Clarke John Sorrentino David Brewer, Jr. Robert Segnit TOWARDS MODERN GYN ECOLOGY Like most physicians of his time, young Dr James Marlon Sims C1813 18837 had taken little interest in women patients beyond caring for ordinary ailments But then in one month in 1845 he was asked to see three young slaves, all of whom had developed vesi covagmal fustulas, a condition which at that time meant a lifetime of discomfort and seclusion Just before seeing the third of these women, he was called to the scene of an accident in which a woman had injured her pewlv ls, by dig :tal exam mation he dlscov ered that her uterus was retroverted and that by admitting some air under pressure into the vagina her comfort Sams had done this by placing the Injured women in the knee chest position, and he returned to his Mont gomery, Ala office and used a pewter spoon and plac ed the young slave in the same position As he in serted the bent handle of the spoon mto the patient's vagina, he reported, I saw everything as no man had ever seen before The fistula was as plain as the nose on a man's face He soon went on to develop an operation to correct these fistulas, and women by the dozens began to come out of seclusion to seek his help The Sims position a more comfortable adaptation of the knee chest an Sims speculum, bear his name today In 1855, Women's Hospital, the first gynecologlc hos pntal inthe U S, opened In N Y , with 30 beds and Sims its only surgeon Sl ms was later to become pres: dent of the A NI A and In 1878 he Initiated an opera tlon for the removal of gallstones and named It chole cystectomy. Elf , ws It sae A I Y I ,. .fi , ss . Y -rx . it ' , , . Q . . U X ' . .Vx I . .X . . . V could be restoredre X X ef - Y ,J I , , - ,, l - , , U V I . - W 1 -. I d l I . I I 0 . I I . . I ,i 1 l u I 1 l x

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