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15½ cm. 34 pp. Illustrated pale green wrappers. Nearly fine; title printed off-center, running off the page slightly as shown in brackets above, but a very decent copy. $200 Outrageous illustrations show insanity and deformed offspring arising from masturbation (AT LEFT, from page 23). Other pictures show medical students, the laboratory, and a portrait of Dr. A. J. Craigie, M.D. A rare, choice and over-the-top exploitation piece, surely among the type Dr. Pierce had in mind when he castigated some of his quack competitors (see item 83). RELATED EPHEMERA laid in: (1) Order slip; (2) . . . An Aggravated Case of Self Abuse . . . [at head: "You will, perhaps, notice that my check calls for $154 . . ."] On pink paper, folded to form [4] pp. (folded, else fine); (3)Medical Leaflet No. XII. Issued January, 1887, By the Craigie Medical Clinic . . . The Terrible Results of Self-Abuse in a Man and His Wife Traced Through Four Generations. . . . On green paper, folded to form [4] pp., including genealogical table of medical horror. (folded and some discoloration, but no wear). ONLY EDITION or version on OCLC, which locates only the copy preserved at the University of Rochester Medical Center Library. Page 19 of this informative publication is reproduced AT RIGHT in its entirety, for the benefit of readers who are considering possible benefits of this salvific suppository . . . Another illustration (from page 18 of this pamphlet) appears as the frontispiece to this catalog. 20
20 CUTTER, Calvin. THE FEMALE GUIDE: Containing Facts and Information Upon the Effects of Masturbation, and the Causes[,] Prevention, Treatment, and Cure of Hernia or Rupture, Costiveness, Liver Complaints, Piles, Deformities and Painful Diseases of the Spine, Suppression and Irregular Painful Monthly Periods, Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling of the Womb, Attended with Weakness of the Bowels, Pain in the Sides and Back, Difficulty of Passing the Urine, &c., &c. Illustrated with Sixteen Superior Engravings. Designed for Females Exclusively. By Calvin Cutter, M.D. West Brookfield [Massachusetts]: Printed by Charles A. Mirick, 1844 [c. 1844 by Calvin Cutter]. 18 cm. vi, [7]-72 pp., COLLATED COMPLETE. Twenty illustrations in the text, many fullpage. Preface dated October, 1844. Orig. cloth-backed printed yellow boards; back board is an illustrated ad promoting "Cutter's Spino Abdominal Supporter" for women. Foxed throughout; boards rubbed, worn at edges and with some stains. A crease crosses a blank area of the title page through the middle. (paid $320 in 1992) $500 No longer a pretty girl, but singular and complete in her original attire. ONLY EDITION on OCLC, which locates four copies: National Library of Medicine, American Antiquarian Society, Harvard Medical School Library, University of Rochester Medical Center Library (the latter example lacking pages 5-8, according to Atwater Catalog Supplement, entry S-306). Dr. CUTTER (1807-72) enjoyed a successful medical and military career; see his biographical notice in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. "CHAPTER VII. EFFECTS OF MASTURBATION ON WOMAN." pp. 30-40, plus continuation of the subject and means of "prevention and restoration," Chapter VIII, pp. 40-49. This early American discussion at such length on female masturbation must be exceptional, and the language is more elevated and less frantic than many works that would follow. Cutter refers to (and later quotes from) "Mrs. Gove's Lectures to Ladies" reported in the Boston Quarterly Review for April 1842: "She has ventured to treat some matters, on which many have thought it most prudent to be silent; but while we have been keeping silence, the evil has been growing; . . ." He then quotes at length from "Dr. Woodward, the distinguished Superintendent of the Hospital at Worcester . . . in his Reports of the Institution," etc. (p. 31), citing American cases at least as far back as 1837). 21
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Page 9 and 10: Printed on pale blue paper. Origina
Page 11 and 12: Copy 1056 of 3000. Colophon at base
Page 13 and 14: The whole affair [the wedding night
Page 15 and 16: 12 CARROLL, Dr. W. B. DIAGNOSIS SHE
Page 17 and 18: maladies have been excited by its e
Page 19: a sole copy, preserved by the "Atha
Page 23 and 24: 15½ cm. 252 pp. Brown ribbed grain
Page 25 and 26: Author's name obtained from an OCLC
Page 27 and 28: are normal, but "it's up to you to
Page 29 and 30: This ignoble production is a tawdry
Page 31 and 32: Much on sexual "inversion" (homosex
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Page 35 and 36: years ago.") and 15 plates, on glos
Page 37 and 38: 33 FOWLER, O[rson]. S[quire] (1809-
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Page 45 and 46: 40 HALL, Winfield Scott. SEX TRAINI
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Page 51 and 52: ads. The articles are by other offi
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told that she must empty her bladde
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character that she need not in the
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72 MAURICEAU, A. M. [pseud.?] THE M
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The ads include a nearly full-page
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erroneous views, so typical of his
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Wrapper halves separated along back
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79 NYSTRÖM, Anton [Kristen]. THE N
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London, 1710. Of the 1759 edition o
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NOT ON OCLC, which shows longer wor
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MASTURBATION, pp. 291, 748-52 (wome
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(p. 784; see item 78). Instead, if
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each successive year through 1857,
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are manipulations in sleep it may a
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91 SHANNON, T[homas]. W., and W[ill
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same time) until their "exquisite t
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pp. 115-162. Ads on the inside and
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on glossy paper: eight men and four
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father instructed him frankly about
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literature of his generation. Paren
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through masturbation. Of course, al
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horror, it was difficult to believe
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Imprint, dimensions and pagination
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I have not transcribed some more ex
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course, is to prevent masturbation
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that there is more wisdom in one ve
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opinion was: 'If this young man esc
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"But, Doctor," interrupted the boy,
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You ought never to put your finger
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Holy Marriage, Unsullied Nature, Mo
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