Read selections from
Pierce's The
People's Common Sense
Medical Adviser; or,
Medicine Explained,
(below) 1895, Buffalo, New
York, from Pierce's own
press at his World's
Dispensary Medical
Association: "Spermatorrhea'
(loss of semen without
copulation, which usually
means masturbation),
portrait
of Pierce, and his hospital.
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, hysteria,
female weakness,
gynecology, obstetrics,
childbirth, and
menstruation
The
George Bush You Didn't
Know
While
perusing Dr.
Pierce's "The
People's
Common Sense
Medical
Advisor" (1895
edition) (more
here)
I found this
in Chapter XV,
The Human
Temperaments.
Who would have
guessed his
second
forehead
quality, the L-word? (I spliced the bottom of p. 178 to the
top of p.
179.)
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More
from Dr.
Pierce:
(portrait
and
signature)
made a range of
medicine in the
19th and 20th
centuries in the
U.S.A., many
probably highly
alcoholic, just
like Lydia
Pinkham's
Vegetable
Compound.
Dr.
Pierce was
Mrs. Pinkham's
most
successful
competitor.
Like Mrs.
Pinkham, Dr. Thompson, and the makers of Cardui,
the company had
a medical
consulting
service, where
the favorite
piece of advice
was to use its
product. (See here for more general information about patent
medicine.)
SEE
the covers of a
1914 calendar
and advertising
booklet, and, at
bottom, an
undated but
modern-looking
tin of "vaginal
tablets" (see a
box
of his tablets).
(And look
what some women
were wearing in
1914 to protect
their clothing
from menstrual
leakage.)
Here are
selections from
Pierce's The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser; or, Medicine
Explained,
(cover)
1895, Buffalo,
New York, from
Pierce's own
press at his
World's
Dispensary
Medical
Association: "Spermatorrhea" (loss of semen without
copulation,
which usually
means masturbation;
see
Dr.
Abbey's similar interest), portrait
of Pierce, and
his hospital.
Here are interior
pages. See
a barn
with an
advertisement
for Dr. Pierce.
SarahAnne
Hazlewood
generously
donated the
Dr.Pierce
material to
this museum.
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