A week later4 years to the day from his first hopeful experimenthe examined the results and found that the fistula has disappeared without infection. The "backwoods surgeon" had found a surgical process that had been vainly sought for hundreds of years. When he was forced by the recurring malaria to move north to New York City. he became concerned with the fate of the working immigrant mothers who could find no facilities in the whole city for specialized medical or surgical care. In his own words. he determined thatAs a matter of common humanity * * * these women ought to have access to a hospital of their own. And so he conceived the idea of the first womans hospital.
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