1874

Sims resigns from Woman’s Hospital of NY State over rulings of Board of Lady Supervisors excluding cancer patients and limiting number of witnesses at operations to 15 (Marr, 41-47). Paul Zweifel’s first publication establishing placental transfer of chloroform, even during labor (Caton, 73-74, 83-84). Lawson Tait reports first successful removal of fibroid tumor of the uterus by abdominal approach (Shepherd, 35, 60). Wernicke publishes Der Aphasische Symptomen-Komplex, positing a sensory complement to Broca’s motor aphasia (“Wernicke’s aphasia”) (Schiller, 207). Forel, as an assistant to Gudden in Munich, claims to make first thin microscopic section of the human brain using “Gudden’s microtome” (Forel, 93).