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:
"'Excitateur
vulvo-uterin'
electrode
faradization
electrode
illustrated in
Auguste
Elisabeth
Philogène
Tripier, Leçons
cliniques sur
les maladies
de femmes:
Thérapeutique
génerale
et
applications
de
l'électricité
à ces
maladies
(Paris: Octave
Doin, 1883)"
(From Rachel
Maines, The
Technology of
Orgasm, p. 86)
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Below:
"Vaginal
electrode,
from Franklin
Benjamin
Gottschalk, Practical
Electro-therapeutics,
with
a special
Section on
Vibratory
Stimulation
(Hammond, Ind.:
F.S. Betz,
1903)" (From
Rachel Maines,
The Technology
of Orgasm, p.
84)
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