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The Technology of Orgasm
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The Technology of Orgasm (edit title/settings)

"Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction

by Rachel Maines (Author) (edit contributors)

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From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for... read more

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In 1653 Pieter van Foreest, called Alemarianus Petrus Forestus, published a medical compendium titled Observationem et Carationem Medicinalium ac Chirurgicarum opera Omnia, with chapter on the diseases of women.

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This book is in Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. (publisher series)

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  1. Rachel Maines (Author)

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