ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

a sole copy, preserved by the "Athanaeum of Ohio"). Subsequent editions
appeared until 1895, followed by an Arno Press reprint in 1974.
Male masturbation, pp. 91-105; Female masturbation, pp. 106-116 + pp. 54-57.
Brief account of the author, at age six, being taught "the diabolical art" of
masturbation by "a young gentleman of seventeen" with whom he had to share a
bed while away from home (p. 57).
MORMONISM AND POLYGAMY, pp. 257-66 (Flake 2498).
17 [another edition] [COOKE, Nicholas Francis, 1829-85] SATAN IN SOCIETY.
By A Physician. . . . Cincinnati and New York: C. F. Vent; Chicago: J. S.
Goodman & Co., 1873 [c. 1870 by C. F. Vent].
Orig. green cloth, worn at extremities. Page references and content as above. $65
Curiously, OCLC locates only three copies of this edition (NY Public Library,
Stanford, Ottawa Public Library).
18 CORNER, George W. ATTAINING MANHOOD. A Doctor Talks to Boys About
Sex. By George W. Corner, M.D. Professor of Anatomy. The University of Rochester.
New York, London: Harper & Brothers, [c. 1938, "Fifth Edition"].
18½ cm. xi pp.; [1]f.; 67 pp. A few illustrations in the text. Orig. blue cloth,
gold paper label on spine. Spine label wearing at edges, else very good. $20
First year of publicaiton shown by OCLC, listing editions in New York and/or
London dated 1938 (at least eleven "editions" this first year, of which URMC has
a first); then 1948, 1952, 1953 and 1968, followed by a Spanish translation
(Mexico City, 1972).
MASTURBATION, pp. 44-47, assuring boys that the practice is perfectly normal.
While not harmful, however, it should be restrained to the extent that it
interferes with - and distracts from - important work and achievements in school
and other aspects of life.
19 Craigie Capsule Company (New York). ABSORPTION OF REMEDIES FROM
THE RECTUM (or Lower Bowel) in the Successful Treatment of Lost Manhood, Lost
Powe[r,?] also in all forms [of?] Losses, Drains, Insanity, Dreams, and Barrenness,
resulting from Early Abuses or Later Excesses. The Craigie Medicated Rectal Pearl [.?]
Common Sense and Medicine Combined. (Fourth Edition, Unchanged.) [cover title:
For Men Only]. New York: The Craigie Capsule Company. 35 Nassau Street,
1886.
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