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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