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Sims Experiments: A Summary

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Evidence shows that apparently Sims had purchased a few enslaved African women of his own in which he performed his experiments/operations on. Although this does seem prejudice in Sims part, it has been confirmed that some of these enslaved women were some of the very first patients that participated at their own will. They agreed to Sims experiments with the sanguineness that the their condition would be palliated. They were aware of how many surgeons before Sims had failed in the success of ever finding a cure for their condition; they still took their contingencies. One of the enslaved women, Anarcha, acquires the amalgamation of the vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas. She withstanded thirty of Sims operations until he successfully

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