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1829–1907
A Victorian physician and reformer, he became known for writing plainly about public health, marriage, and birth control at a time when those subjects were highly controversial.
by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Drysdale
Charles Robert Drysdale was a British doctor born in 1829 and died in 1907. Reliable sources identify him as a physician, and his name is closely linked with 19th-century debates about sexual health, family limitation, and social reform.
He is remembered less for fiction or literary celebrity than for the way he brought medical authority into difficult public conversations. In an era when many writers avoided such topics, he wrote and spoke about marriage, population, and reproductive health in a direct, practical way.
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