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65 LAGRANGE, [Robert J.] and [Henry J.] JORDAN. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE EUROPEAN ANATOMICAL, PATHOLOGICAL AND ETHNO- LOGICAL MUSEUM, 708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Open Daily, for Gentlemen Only, From 8 A.M. till 10 P.M. Drs. LaGrange & Jordan, Philadelphia [cover title & imprint]. N.d. 1880s-90s? 19 cm. [3]-66 pp. (complete) + original green-paperbacked, printed white paper wrappers. Back wrapper illustrated from a photograph of the museum, a narrow four-story structure (reproduced AT RIGHT). Wearing, with soil and discolor. $150 A gift from collector friend Forrest S. Baker, and proably quite scarce. Not on OCLC, which shows four other editions, of other pagination, 1860-1900. All appear rare, three of them found in a single location only, and one in two locations. Printed guide to a veritable chamber of horrors and erotica of every description, including instruments of torture and views or models of the tortured parts as they appeared after removal from the instruments. A section entitled, "Pathological Department," pp. 39-47, is clearly devised as an advertisement for the proprietors' sexual cures. Among the various diseased anatomical parts on exhibit (male and female) are many which were ruined through self-pollution and the solitary vice. An ad on page 59 promotes the proprietors' book, "Manhood; Or, Secrets Revealed." The bust of a "Mormon Elder" (item 657, p. 46) is included in this pathological section, apparently as a diversion (NOT IN FLAKE). 66 LEWIS, Dio. CHASTITY; OR, OUR SECRET SINS. . . . Philadelphia & elsewhere: George Maclean & Co.; St. Louis: N. D. Thompson & Co., 1874 [c. 1874 by Dio Lewis]. 18 cm. 320 pp. Rust-colored cloth. Worn at extremities; paper darkening. $60 68
Despite the copyright date in this copy, OCLC shows the earliest edition in 1871 (three copies of it located), followed by 1874 editions in New York, Philadelphia, and London. The present Philadelphia edition was also reprinted in 1875, and the New York edition in 1888, '90 and '94 (the latter two, Fowler & Wells); Arno Press reprint in 1974. MASTURBATION, pp. 160-186 and elsewhere. Naive case histories; servants handling babies' genitals to quiet them, and the babies soon learning to handle themselves (p. 183). From the case history of "A Wretched Onanist": My father employed a good many servants, and among them a detestable creature by the name of Hickey. He was a good-natured sort of fellow, and took a great fancy to me. One Sunday, when the folks were all at church, Hick asked me to take off my clothes, and he would rub me all over, and cure me of my cold. I refused to undress; but, half by coaxing and half by forcing, I was overcome, and then—O my God!—he gave me the first lesson in a practice which has ruined me, body and soul. The filthy, horrid work goes on now, three or four nights a week, without any voluntary act of mine. I would be castrated at once; but, doctor, it is too late; of course it is. There is nothing left for me now but a madhouse or suicide. Doctor, speak out like a man: would you not advise me to blow out my brains? [pp. 165-6] 67 LOWRY, E. B., and Richard J. LAMBERT. HIMSELF. Talks with Men Concerning Themselves. By E. B. Lowry, M.D., Author of "Herself," "Truths," etc., and Richard J. Lambert, M.D. Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1912 [c. 1912]. 19 cm. [2]ff.; 7-216 pp. (complete). Publishers' ads, pp. [195-99]; Index, pp. 201- 16. Orig. maroon cloth lettered on the spine (and decoratively lettered on the front board) in light green. Very good; moderate wear. $35 First of six editions shown on OCLC, 1912–1919, and showing the same pagination (above) as the copy offered here. Chapter VI, "Self-Abuse," pp. 60-68, is rather curious, and I suspect that the two authors simply came to a compromise and let each write their portion as they wished. The first portion strikes me as quite progressive for its time. Then, without any visual break, the text seems to be continued by someone who is more traditional in his views, repeating many of the old ideas and myths through page 68, including a warning against "a new problem" that has recently "confronted those who are trying to raise the standard of morality." It is the development of "Various electric vibrators" applied in some unscrupulous massage parlors to men's "generative organs . . . Many men who would scorn self-abuse have fallen eager victims to this habit . . . ," pp. 67-68. 69
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