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THREAD: Oh what pain our ancestors went through. “The father of modern gynecology”, James Marion Sims used African women forced into slavery for his experiments and surgeries which were performed without anesthesia.
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He argued that the subjects of his operations weren’t in pain enough to warrant any form of anesthesia/therapeutic treatment. His reasoning was that black people didn’t feel as much pain as whites and therefore didn’t require anesthesia during surgery. #HumanRightsViolations
This caused untold suffering to those women and many died at his hands. Sims didn’t have any specific gynecological training. Drs. in the 19th century weren’t keen on treating women. Female organs were considered derogative and disgusting at that time. #HumanRights
