Dr. James Marion Sims experimented on enslaved women until he was satisfied that his techniques were safe.

Results 1 to 2 of 2...

Visitor Tips and News About Monument to the Father of Gynecology Reports and tips from RoadsideAmerica.com visitors and Roadside America mobile tipsters. Some tips may not be verified. Submit your own tip.

The monument to Dr. James Marion Simms is a life-size bust of the doctor set in the corner of the capital grounds. In front of Simms is larger-than-life bronze statue of Benjamin Tillman. He was a governor of South Carolina and apparently was very outspoken proponent of lynching minorities. So on the South Carolina Capital grounds there is a statue of George Washington (who owned slaves), a monument to Dr. Marion (who conducted medical research on slaves), a statue of Benjamin Tillman (who lobbied for lynching slaves), and a statue of Strom Thurmond (who opposed every Civil Rights and desegregation law that came before him).

To even it out, there is a really cool Civil Rights memorial on the grounds, a copper relief on both sides of a monolith.