 He therefore "set to work to remove the clitoris whenever he had the opportunity of doing so", according to his obituary.Brown performed several clitoridectomies between 1859 and 1866.In the United States, J. Marion Sims followed Brown's work and in 1862 slit the neck of a woman's uterus and amputated her clitoris, "for the relief of the nervous or hysterical condition as recommended by Baker Brown".