On Fri, 01 Jul 2016 09:46:50 -0700, Jeffry Ricker wrote:
On Jul 1, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Jeffry Ricker, wrote::
It's interesting that Hodges (2005), who has done much research on
this
topic, did not reference the translator's name. Perhaps "Dr.
Translator" did
a very good job covering his tracks, although I suspect that, at the
time it
was published, many of his colleagues knew who he was,
In all likelihood physicians of the time knew or could guess who the
translator
was. It is possible that the book was reviewed in medical journals or
elsewhere
at the time and it might be a good idea to do a search on these,
especially
those dealing with insanity.
On a sidenote, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has a pretty good
library which you might want to check out. Here is a listing of their
collection
of books by Tissot:
http://catalog.nyam.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=kw&q=Tissot%2C%20Samuel%20Auguste%20David&offset=50&sort_by=pubdate_asc
It is possible that a librarian at NYAM might be able to help find out
who
the "Translator" was; at the very least, he/she might be able to provide
a list of physicians who were practicing in NYC in 1832 -- it is
possible
that "Translator" also wrote on related issues or general health.
On a sidenote #2: the Hume's English translation of the 1776 is
actually
quite available because it has been published as a book, bundled with
a couple of Tissot's other books. Here it is on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Three-essays-disorders-incidental-sedentary/dp/1171469527
You could probably get a copy via interlibrary loan.
I forgot to include the citation:
Hodges, F. M. (2005). History of sexual medicine: The antimasturbation
crusade in antebellum American medicine. The Journal of Sexual
Medicine,
2(5), 722-731.
Thank you. I was wondering who this Hodges was that you spoke of. ;-)
In the United States, the War on Masturbation began to "climax" in the
mid-19th
century--a climax
Hah!
that continued into perhaps the first third of the twentieth
century, although the claims made about the deleterious effects of
chronic
"self-abuse" evolved through this time period.
There's a passage in the first edition of the Boy Scout's Handbook
(1911)
that sounds like General Ripper's paranoid ramblings about the loss of
"precious bodily fluids" in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove. I'll
find it and
send it later.
I see you've found the Scout's guide to self-repression and have made
another post about it. Now, the more interesting question is, what did
the U.S. armed forces tell the troops besides using a rubber when doing
the nasty with "Susie Rotten-crotch"; see:
http://www.psywarrior.com/PSYOPVD.html
;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
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