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SEX & SEXUALITY, 1640-1940
Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives

Part 1: Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London

Sources from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
REEL 1

Sexual Habits
M D T de Bienville M D
Nymphomania, or a Dissertation concerning the Furor Uterinus. trans. Edward Sloane Wilmot. J Bew, London, 1775
MSL TR 218.3

Jacques Ferrand M D
Erotomania, or a Treatise discoursing of the Essence, Causes…and Cure of Love, or Erotique Melancholy.1640
2219

John Marten
Gonosologium Novum: Or, a New System of all the Secret Infirmities and Diseases, Natural, Accidental, and Venereal in Men and Women…with a further warning against Quacks.
N Crouch, London, 1709
EPB/MSL/MAR

Anon
Onania; or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, And all its frightful Consequences, in both Sexes, consider’d with Spirittual and Physical Advice to those, Who have Already Injur’d Themselves by This Abominable Practice. And seasonable Admonition to the Youth of the Nation (of both sexes) and Those Whose Tuition They are Under, Whether Parents, Guardians, Masters, or Mistresses.
Mrs Cooke, W Pedtingham, W Corbett, 1776
EPB/Suppl B./ONA

Anon
A supplement to the Onania, or The Heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences, in both sexes consider’d… Containing, some further remarks of the mischiefes, by this practice…refuting the malicious charges in a late scurrilouis libel, intitled Onania examin’d and detected…:to which is added, a curious piece…translated out of the Latin from L Sckmeider…:as, also, De Quincy’s translation of Dr Carr’s remarkable answer to a letter sent him by a divine, concerning two nuns at Rome, reported to have chang’d their sex: Likewise, Dr Drake’s and several other physicians opinions of hermaphrodites, and women brought to a resemblance of them, by the practice of self-pollution….
The fifth edition. J Isted, Book-seller, Mr Crouch, Bookseller, who us’d also to sell it, being dead! c. 1729
39162/B

Anon
Onania examined, and detected: or the ignorance, error, impertinence and contradiction of a book called Onania discovered and expounded…By Philo-Castitatis. Second edition.
J Marshall and J Roberts. London, 1724
39162/B

REEL 2
Sexual Habits

G Archibald Douglas
The Nature and Causes of Impotence in men, and Barrenness in Women, Explained.
Third edition. J Brett, London, 1758
20800/B

M Tissot M D
Onanism; or, a Treatise upon the Disorders produced by Masturbation or, The Dangerous effects of secret and excessive venery.
J Pridden, London, 1766
EPB/B/TIS/18/B

M Tissot M D
A New Guide to Health and Long Life, or Advice to families: being a treatise upon the disorders produced by the dangerous effects of a secret and excessive venery among youths of both sexes.
T Willis, London, 1808
EPB/Hunterian Soc/TIS
(A Hunterian Society deposit)

M Tissot M D
A Treatise on the Crime of Onan, illustrated with a Variety of cases together with the
method of Cure by M Tissot. Trans. from the third edition of the original. B Thomas, London, 1766
EPB/B/TIS/111/B

James Graham
Lecture on the Generation, Increase and Improvement of the Human Species. 1783
25278/A

James Graham
The Guardian goddess of health: or the whole art of preventing and curing disease; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period…with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty…To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen. Printed for the People, London, c.1782
25283/P

James Graham
Il Convito Amoroso! Or a serio-comico-philosophical lecture on the causes, nature and effects of love and beauty…As delivered by Hebe Vestina….To which subjoined a description …of the celebrated celestial bed. Third edition. Printed for Hebe Vestina, London, 1782
25282/B

James Graham
Sketch of the Plan &c. the Temple of Health! In the Centre of the Royal Terrace, Adelphi.
London, 1780?
EPB/SupplD/GRA

James Graham
A Sketch: or Short Description of (Dr) Grahams’ medical apparatus, &c Erected about the beginning for the year 1780 (in his house) on the Royal (Terrace) Adelphi.
Mr Almon, Mr Becket and Messr Richardson and Urquhart 1780
25281/B/1and 2

REEL 3
Advice Books

Anon
Aristotle’s Masterpiece or The Secrets of Generation as played in all the parts thereof.
J Howe, London, 1690
11217/A

Nicolas de Venette
The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Reveal’d. Third edition. 1712
EPB/VEN

Samuel Solomon
Guide to Health or, advice to both sexes with an essay on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of private nature. Also an address to parents, tutors, and guardians of youth. To which one added, observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing.
Fifty second edition. 1800
48928/B

Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
REEL 4
Advice Books

Thomas Beddoes
Hygeia: or Essays Moral and Medical, on the causes affecting the Personal State of our middling and affluent classes. 3 vols Bristol, 1802-1803
1672 e. 421-423

REEL 5
Advice Books

Anon
Aristotle’s Masterpiece or the Secrets of Generation Display’d. London, 1694
Vet A3f. 163

J H Meibomius
A Treatise of the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs. London,1718
Vet a 4 f. 2147

Michael Ryan
The Philosophy of marriage, in its social, moral and physical relations; with an account of the diseases of the genito-urinary organs. London, 1837
37.261

H A Allbutt
The Wife’s Handbook: How a Woman should order herself during Pregnancy.... 1886
162.e.211

Moral Guidance
Anon
Moral and Instructive tales for the improvement of young ladies. 1790
Vet. A5 f. 307

Madame Gatti de Gamond
The Phalanstery; or Attractive Industry and Moral Harmony. London, 1841
41.260

REEL 6
Moral Guidance

William Lovett
Social and Political Morality. 1853
270 b. 99

Lionel Beale
Our Morality and the Moral Question. 1887
26521 e.9

Medical Works

William Rowley
A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Breasts of Women.... London, 1772
Vet.A5e.159 (4)

William Rowley
The New Method of curing the Venereal Disease..... London, 1772
Vet.A5e. 159(5)

William Acton
A complete practical treatise on venereal diseases. London, 1841
41.1125

Samuel La’mert M D
Self Preservation: A Medical Treatise on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of the Generative Organs .... London, 1852
160.c.37

REEL 7
Medical Works

William Acton
The Functions and Disorders of the reproductive organs. London, 1857
160 a.3

William Goodell
Lessons in Gynaecology Philadelphia. 1887 3rd ed
(Radcl)

Robert Bell
Woman in Health and sickness. Glasgow, 1889
1619 e. 83

Robert Bell
Sterility. London. 1896
16199 e. 4

REEL 8
Literary Treatments

Daniel Defoe
A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. London, 1727
Vet A4.e.609

Daniel Defoe
Conjugal Lewdness; or Matrimonial Whoredom.London, 1727
24731e.612

Dinah Mulock (Craik)
A Woman’s Thoughts about Women. 1858
270 b. 119

REEL 9
Literary Treatments

J Ewing Ritchie
The Night Side of London. 1858
G A Lond.8 288

Prostitution
The Society for the Suppression of Vice
The constable’s assistant, being a compendium of the duties and powers of constables.
London, 1807
Vet.A6 e. 561

William Hale
Considerations on the causes and the prevalence of female prostitution. 1812
232 e. 184

Michael Ryan
Prostitution in London, with a comparative view of that of Paris and New York.
London, 1839
39.278

William Bevan
Prostitution in the Borough of Liverpool. 1843
43.1266 (9)

REEL 10
Prostitution

William Acton
Prostitution considered in its moral, social and sanitary aspects in London and in other large cities. 1857
232 a. 71

James Miller
Prostitution considered in relation to its cause and cure. Edinbugh, 1859
G Pamph 2446 (26)

The Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children
Licensing Prostitution. Nottingham, 1869
24728 e 15

John Chapman
Prostitution, governmental experiments in controlling it. London, 1870
200 h. 106 (4)

Prostitution
William Acton
The Contagious Diseases act: Shall the contagious diseases act be applied to the civil population? London, 1870
150 f. 2 (4)

Frederick W Lowndes
Prostitution and venereal diseases in Liverpool. London, 1886
24728 e.19

Abraham Flexner
Prostitution in Europe. London, 1914
24728 e. 48

REEL 11
Sociology of Sex

George Drysdale
The Elements of Social Science; or Physical, Sexual and Natural Religion. 1861
250 c.164

REEL 12
Sociology of Sex

Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. 1871 2 vols
189f.40,41

Hon Edward Lyttelton
The Causes and Prevention of Immorality in Schools. 1887
26521.d.2(6)

Charles Knowlton M D
Fruits of Philosophy: An Essay on the Population Question. 1888
Radcl.



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