ageofrevolutions.com/2026/10/19/black-maternal-health-and-an-emotional-history-of-the-mothers-of-gynecology Black Maternal Health and an Emotional History of the Mothers of Gynecology
An enslaved woman near Amelia County, Virginia, suffered abdominal pain and diarrhea for eighteen months from a malignant ovarian tumor, and Dr. Theodorick Bland treated none of it. He waited four months, asked to dissect her after she died, then preserved the fetal skull he found and showed it to many.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
