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3 unusual facts about J. Marion Sims


Alexander Skene

As a sculptor, Skene created a bust of J. Marion Sims, which is on display in the lobby of the Kings County Medical Society.

J. Marion Sims

Under the patronage of Napoleon III, Sims organized the American-Anglo Ambulance Corps, which treated wounded soldiers from both sides at the battle of Sedan.

After two years of study at the South Carolina College in Columbia, Sims worked with Dr. Churchill Jones in Lancaster, South Carolina, and took a three-month course at the Medical College of Charleston.


Sarah Platt Doremus

In 1855 she assisted J. Marion Sims in his project of establishing the New York Woman's Hospital, of which she was ultimately president.


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