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Sims (JAMES MARION an American)

JAMES MARION, an American surgeon; born in Lancaster, S. C., Jan. 25, 1813; studied medicine at Charleston and Philadelphia, and having drawn to some of the special diseases of women, for which he gained a distinguished name, introducing new instruments and operations. He was instrumental in getting a woman's hospital established in New York; subsequently practiced for some years in Europe; and had charge of a large hospital at Sedan after the disaster to the French there in 1870. He died in New York City, Nov. 13, 1883.