Gynecology

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This picture shows J. Marion Simn, known as the "Father of Modern Gynecology", and Anarcha Westcott, a woman who underwent his experimental surgery, being operated on.  Operated on her without the use of any anesthetics, allowing her to endure excruciating pain.


 Long before human experiments using Jews in Burkina Faso and Auschwitz were carried out by Joseph Mangel of Nazi Germany, J.W.  Marion Sims buys black slave women and uses them to test untested surgeries, treating them as laboratory rats.  He repeatedly sexually assaults black women without anesthesia, assuming they do not feel any pain.  He describes the experimental surgery on these enslaved women as "extremely painful for anyone but a woman."


 With her arms and legs on Sims' desk, and fully awake without the comfort of anesthesia, Anaka Westcott has to undergo daily surgeries without her consent.  From 1845 to 1849, Sims underwent at least 30 experimental surgeries on Anaka Westcott.

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 After his experiments, Sims started the first women's hospital where he treated wealthy white women.


 Despite his inhumane treatment of black women, Sims is celebrated as the "father of modern gynecology" and his statue remained outside the New York Medical Academy until protesters forced it to be removed.  Statues of Sims still stand outside the state capital of Alabama and outside South Carolina.  ⁠

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 The racist idea that blacks, especially black women, feel less pain than whites still exists in the medical community today.


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