See Dr.
Grace Feder Thompson's
letter
appealing for patients, Lydia
E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and Orange
Blossom medicine,
Dr. E. C. Abbey's The
Sexual System and Its
Derangements, which
emphasises masturbation,
as doe Dr. Pierce, and
several small
boxes of old
American patent medicine
for women.
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Dr. R.
V. Pierce's patent
medicine empire and
hospital, often
concerned with women's
diseases, cancer,
digestive illness,
fatigue,
headache, physical
therapy, female
weakness, hysteria,
nervous
disorders, gynecology
and menstruation
Selections from "The
People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser
in Plain
English; or, Medicine
Simplified," 1895,
Buffalo, New York
Was
Dr. Pierce a
hypocrite?
Below:
Pp. 910-911
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Below:
Compare this "Manipulator" with the "Manipulator"
in the bottom
illustration
from Rachel
Maines's book.
Are they the
same or from the
same company?
Maybe it was a
generic term.
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Below: "The patient interface for George Taylor's steam-powered
'Manipulator'
of the late
1860s, from
George Henry
Taylor, Pelvic
and Hernial
Therapeutics
(New York: J.B.
Alden, 1885)"
(From Rachel
Maines, The
Technology of
Orgasm, p. 15)
"Taylor
warns
physicians
that treatment
of female
pelvic
complaints
with the
'Manipulator'
should be
supervised to
prevent
overindulgence.
One of his
devices [below]
featured a
padded table
with a cutout
for the lower
abdomen, in
which a vibrating
sphere, driven
by a steam
engine [!],
massaged the
pelvic area."
(Maines,
p. 15)
(QUOTES
IN RED
EVERYWHERE ARE
MY ADDED
EMPHASIS.)
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906-7
(Manipulator) | 908-9
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(steam-powered
Manipulator) | 912-13
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(diseases of women)
| 920
(illustration of
machine room) | vaginal
electrodes | doctor's
vibrator
set | The
Chattanooga vibrator
& rectal vibration
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