The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (35 page)

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Authors: Rachel P. Maines

Tags: #Medical, #History, #Psychology, #Human Sexuality, #Science, #Social Science, #Women's Studies, #Technology & Engineering, #Electronics, #General

by sexual excess,
40
–41,
57
,
79
,
84

Hearst’s
(magazine),
102
–3,
107
,
173

Hedley, William Snowdon,
83

helmets, vibrating,
91

Highmore, Nathaniel,
2
,
4
,
31
,
53
,
114

Hinsdale, Guy,
80

Hippocrates,
1
,
24
,
29

Hite, Shere,
viii
,
5
,
49
,
61
,
64
,
80
,
119
,
121

Holley, Marietta,
75
–76

Home Needlework Magazine
,
107
,
173

horseback riding,
59
,
75
,
89
–91

Horst, Gregor,
2

Howard, William Lee,
104

Hoyd, Herman,
83

humors.
See
Galen

hydrotherapy

general,
12
,
44
,
70
,
72
–81,
172
–173
pelvic,
4
,
36

hyperaemia.
See
congestion; engorgement

hypochondria,
32

hysteria

conversion,
45
definitions of,
21
–47
incidence and etiologies,
31
,
38
,
46
,
56
,
59
,
79
marriage and intercourse as treatments,
25
,
27
,
29
,
32
,
37
,
115
in men,
36
,
44
,
47
,
94
,
115
therapies for,
11
,
68
,
78
–80

Ibn-Sina.
See
Avicenna

impotence,
82
–83,
89

infertility,
73
,
83

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
xv
–xvi

intercourse.
See
coitus

Irwin, J. A.,
74
,
77

J.J. Duck Company,
104

Jacquart and Thomasset,
52
,
172

John of Gaddesden,
137
n

Johnson, Edward,
78
–79

jolting chairs.
See
chairs, jolting

Jones, Ernest,
36

Juvenal,
60
,
68
,
129
n

Kaplan, Helen Singer,
109

Kellogg, John Harvey,
83
–85

King, A.F.A.,
8
,
41

Kinsey, Alfred Charles,
5
,
49
,
62
,
65
,
119

Kneipp, Sebastien,
74

Kolischer, G.,
55

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von,
54
,
57
,
82
,
89

Kranzberg, Melvin,
122

Lambert Snyder vibrator.
See
vibrator, models, hand-powered

Landers, Ann,
64

Lane, R. J.,
74

Laqueur, Thomas,
7
,
51
,
62
,
172

Lasègue, Charles,
34

Latin in medical works,
70
,
171
–72

Laycock, Thomas,
35

Lazarsfeld, Sophie,
61
,
113

Lemay, Helen Rodnite,
25
,
52

lesbians,
57
,
122

leucorrhea,
59

Lief, H. I.,
80
,
155
n

Lindstrom Smith Company,
89
,
106
–8

loss of consciousness.
See
syncope

Lowen, Alexander,
112

lubrication, vaginal,
8
,
24
,
32
,
38
,
40

MacDonald, Michael,
28

MacDonald, Robert H.,
172

MacKay, Alexander,
75

MacKay, Charles,
33
–34

Maddock, Mildred,
103

Mademoiselle
(magazine),
118

magnetism,
33
–34,
54
,
77
.
See also
Mesmer

Malchow, Charles,
89

Malvern, England,
74

Mandeville, Bernard,
2
,
32

Manhattan Electrical Supply,
95

marijuana,
58

marriage

advertisements for,
101
coitus in,
44
as treatment for hysteria and chlorosis,
2
,
3
,
25
,
27
–30,
32
,
37
,
115

Martin, Franklin H.,
40
,
84

massage,
11
,
40
–41,
44
,
68
,
87
,
91
,
101
105
–7

electrical,
84
–89
with vibrators,
18
,
41
,
83
,
89
–101,
102
–10
of vulva,
4
,
8
,
10
,
67
,
70
–71,
109
,
113
–14

massagers,
12
,
108

Massey, George,
71

Masters and Johnson,
48
–49,
51
,
119
,
131
n

masturbation,
10
,
28
,
56
–59

as cause of disease,
37
,
54
–55,
57
–59,
79
,
82
,
172
with dildo,
58
–59,
121
–22
with electric battery,
82
,
84
female,
3
,
5
,
36
,
90
,
116
male,
36
manual, by patient,
9
,
25
manual, by physician,
39
with water,
80
–81

Matijaca, Anthony,
95
,
96

May, Abigail,
78

McClellan, Walter,
75

Meigs, Charles Delucena,
36
,
89

menopause,
80
,
95

menorrhagia,
57

menstruation,
30
–31,
52
,
111
.
See also
amenorrhea; dysmenorrhea; menorrhagia

Mesmer, Friedrich Anton,
33

midwives,
4
,
8
,
12
,
25
–28,
68
,
114

Miller, W. R.,
80
,
155
n

mineral springs,
72

Modern Priscilla
(magazine),
103
,
106
–7,
173

Modern Women
(magazine),
102
,
173

Monarch Vibrator Co.,
103

Monell, Samuel Howard,
67

Mortimer Granville, Joseph

as inventor of electromechanical vibrator,
11
,
15
,
93
–94,
98
–99
views on hysteria,
93
–94

Moschion,
1
,
24

Mosher, Clelia Duel,
61
,
65

Murdoch, Iris,
72

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