Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cushmania Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Gossip--Published Gossip--Private Relationships--Networks Italy--Rome Description An account of the resource A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a>) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century. We invite you to either look for specific items via the tag cloud at the bottom of the page or the search function at the top, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>." <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="237.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="324.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Article A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Text that is part of a magazine or newspaper. The article may include other formats such as images. Provenance What is the source of the piece of information, where is it derived from? E.g. archive (e.g. scans), research notes by a someone who had access to archival material, published (e.g. in an edited version) , citation (e.g. cited in secondary literature) The New York Times, <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1869/10/03/80242417.html?pageNumber=4">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1869/10/03/80242417.html?pageNumber=4</a>. Accessed May 12, 2020 Text Any textual data included in the document The sad news given in yesterday's TIMES by your correspondent at Malvern in reference to the health of Miss CUSHMAN, will carry sorrow to the thousands of her friends here. It is to quiet all apprehensions of immediate danger that I venture to write these lines. MISS CUSHMAN called to see me in Paris on the 4th June last. She was in apparently vigorous health, yet she had had for some time a little inderrated [sic] gland that gave her great mental anxiety, but no physical suffering. I advised her to let it alone, to avoid all immediate surgical interference, to go to Malvern for the season and to dismiss the subject from her thoughts. It seems that she went to Malvern, but unfortunately she has submitted to extirpation of the gland. Now, what I wish to say is this: there was no immediate danger in her disease. and there could be no sort of danger on the operation, per se, for it is one of the easiest and simplest in the whole range of surgery. As she was, on or before the 16th of September, (the date of your correspondent's letter,) lying "at the point of death, quite given up by her friends," I am pretty sure that the operation must have been followed by erysipelas, for from the very nature of the case, it is almost the only accident that could have happened. Now, erysipelas is a disease that would by self-limitation have terminated before this either in convalescence or death. And as we have received  no news by telegram of the latter, the interference is clear to my mind that our gifted countrywoman is now convalescent. Let us then hope for the best till we know the worst. Believe me, Sir, yours, &c. J. MARION SIMS. Location The location of the interview NYC, NY, US Geocode (Latitude) 40.7127281 Geocode (Longitude) -74.0060152 Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed how is it possible that he published this only ONE DAY after the NYT report? also: Mr. Sims was a racist ridiculous article on how he received 'consent': https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563360/ protests: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/29/a-surgeon-experimented-on-slave-women-without-anesthesia-now-his-statues-are-under-attack/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miss Charlotte Cushman's Health - Letter to the Editor from Dr. Sims in The New York Times, Oct 3, 1869 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The New York Times Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869-10-03 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0362 Description An account of the resource Dr. James Marion Sims replies to an article of <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/363">The New York Times of Oct 2, 1869</a>, and feels entitled to comment on Charlotte Cushman's post-operation state of health and diagnosis without having treated her on this issue. (He had dismissed her health concerns, when she had consulted with him earlier. Cushman consequently underwent treatment with J. Y. Simpson instead, who recommended a mastectomy.) For this violation of confidentiality, the Ethics Committe of the New York Academiy of Medicine brings charges against him. For more detailed information on this case, see Deboard Kuhn McGregor's From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology (Rutgers UP, 1998; p. 174–178). Sims is known for his contributions to gynecological medical practices. His scientific work involved medical practices for which he used enslaved Black women, often without anasthesia. See <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/black-subjectivity-and-the-origins-of-american-gynecology/">"Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology."</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sims, J. Marion, 1813-1883 Subject The topic of the resource Racism/Racist Violence Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Illness New York Times France--Paris Intimacy--As topic Rumors Gossip--Published breach of privacy gossip--published illness/death press coverage