More about masturbation:
The Science of a New Life, by Dr. John Cowan,
1875 - in Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Spermatorrhea"
section of The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
(63rd edition, 1895) - in The Sexual System and Its
Derangements, by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) - in Kelly's Gynecology,
1928 - Rachel Maines wrote a book about other doctors' masturbating their patients, male
and female, as a treatment, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator,
and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Press, 1999)
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Plain Facts for Old and Young:
Embracing the Natural History and Hygiene of
Organic Life, by J. H. Kellogg, M. D. (1892, Burlington, Iowa, U.S.A.)
Cure of masturbation in boys: cage,
circumcision, sewing prepuce shut
Cure of masturbation in girls and women: carbolic
acid on clitoris; mental masturbation
"A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision,
especially when there is any degree of phimosis [tight foreskin]. The operation
should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic [GOD!], as the brief pain attending the operation
will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it is connected
with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases."
"It [the operation on a male to stop masturbation] consists in
the application of one or more silver sutures in such a way as to prevent
erection."
"In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic
acid to the clitoris [YIKES!] an excellent
means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence
of the practice in those whose will-power has become so weakened that the
patient is unable to exercise self-control.
"The worse cases among young women are those in which the disease
has advanced so far that erotic thoughts are attended by the same voluptuous
sensations which accompany the practice. The author has met many cases of
this sort in young women, who acknowledged that the sexual orgasm was thus
produced, often several times daily. The application of carbolic acid in
the manner described is also useful in these cases in allaying the abnormal
excitement, which is a frequent provocation of the practice of this form
of mental masturbation."
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