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. 912-913
Compare
these with the
table in the
bottom
illustration.
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Below:
See
comments on
the previous page. "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)
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