What did American and European women use in the past for menstruation?
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Compare Dr. 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)


The Sexual System and Its Derangements, (selections), by Dr. E. C. Abbey, 87 or more pages (the last pages may be missing)
(1882; Buffalo, New York, U. S. A. )
Youth and manhood

See the first page for discussion of the book.

The booklet is a gift from SarahAnne Hazlewood.

   
 
Left: Folly and error, caused by masturbation. The author writes that he has seen worse cases than this. Note the emphasis of the deformed hands, the agents of his condition.
 
Above: Wisdom and truth, or, A Life Reclaimed from Masturbation (my title), which the author can effect for $10 a month (a later section). Yes, that is the standard Napoleonic pose men assumed for photos, but maybe he's actually hiding his still-deformed hand. Wait, is he reaching for something?
 

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