Jun 21, 2020
This painting hanging in the state capital of Alabama take a long look at it. James Marian Sims - who perfected his surgical techniques by operating Without anesthesia on enslaved black women because he believed black women Didn’t Feel Pain. he described the experimental surgeries on his enslaved subjects as “So painful, that none but a woman could have borne them. After perfecting the techniques on black enslaved women without anesthesia in America, Sims went on to offer the procedure in Europe to wealthy white women who were sedated. This man is arguably the most famous American surgeon of the 19th century. I cannot, Cannot fathom the pain these black women endured under this man’s hands.
