Description:
(Surgeon) Known as The Father of Modern Gynaecology, J. Marion Sims is remembered for developing a surgical method to deal with vesicovaginal fistula, a childbirth-related complication. However, since his experiments were conducted on Black slave-women, without anesthesia, they were later deemed unethical. He had also headed the American Gynecological Society.
Overview
Birthday
January 25, 1813 (Aquarius)
Born InLancaster County, South Carolina, United States
