What in the world is this white flower doing among azaleas? And just what in the heck is it? Send your best guess to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
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Our March 13 image, “A bust of whom?” was familiar to lots of readers. Hats off to all of the sleuths who recognized the monument on the Statehouse grounds of Dr. J. Marion Sims (1813-1883), known by some as the “father of modern gynecology.”
Congratulations to: Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va.; Daniel Prohaska of Moncks Corner; Jay Altman, Daniel Brennan and Jack Shuler, all of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Harvey Shackelford of Newberry; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; Charles Davis of Aiken; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; Cricket Adams of Myrtle Beach; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Don Clark of Hartsville; and Vic Carpenter of Lugoff.
Graf said Sims was a native of Lancaster. “After graduating from South Carolina Medical College, Sims began practicing medicine in Lancaster, South Carolina. Shortly after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama. There, he pioneered new surgical techniques for treating women and invented 71 instruments to aid in the process of childbirth. In 1853, he moved his practice to New York and established the Woman’s Hospital of the State of New York, one of the first hospitals in the country devoted solely to the care of women. Sims also established a cancer hospital in New York, which is known today as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
“A statue of J. Marion Sims, called the “father of gynecology,” was removed from New York’s Central Park on April 17, 2018. Sims is a controversial figure due to his experiments on female slaves who were rarely given anesthesia.”
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Here’s a wild guess about the white flower showing up under the red azalea. I think it is a scourge. A vine; maybe a wild blackberry vine?